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B-224660 1 (1988-03-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnai0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof- Fuller C. Jones, Jr. - Relocation Expenses File: B-224660 Date: March 14, 1988 DIGEST 1. Transferred National Aeronautics and Space Administration employee was erroneously authorized use of two privately owned vehicles (POVs) in contravention of the Federal Travel Regulations, para. 2-2.3. Entitlement to travel expenses in excess of statutory and regulatory limitations cannot be predicated on erroneous advice or purported authorization in erroneous travel order. The general rule that orders may not be modified retroactively to decrease benefits refers only to competent orders and is not a bar to retroactive amendment of travel order provi- sions clearly in conflict with law or regulation. 2. Although regulations exclude reimbursement for a second POV as an item of household goods, once the Government Bill of Lading (GBL) method is authorized and an employee chooses to move all or part of his household goods by some other means an employee may be reimbursed his actual expenses for shipping costs, limited to the cost which the government would have incurred had all the household goods been moved on one GBL, in one lot, from one origin to one destination, by the lowest cost carrier providing the level of service required by the agency at the time the GBL method was authorized. DECISION Mr. Fuller C. Jones, Jr., transferred from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters, Washington, D.C., to NASA, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida, under an agency travel order which erroneously authorized the use of two privately owned vehicles (POVs). A voucher in the amount of $129.45 covering mileage for the second POV may not be certified for payment since the entitlement to travel and transportation expenses in excess of the statutory and regulatory limitations cannot be predicated on erroneous authorizations in a travel order c~'-kA(71

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