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B-226452 1 (1988-06-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadndb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: tThe Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof: Staff Sergeant Frank D. Carr, USMC--Transferred Service Member--Dislocation Allowance File: B-226452 Date: June 21, 1988 DIGEST 1. The reimbursable relocation expenses of transferred service members should be charged as an obligation against the appropriation current when their permanent change-of- station orders are issued, and their rights to reimbursement vest when the change-of-station move is then performed under those orders. Payment of the reimbursable expenses should be made from the appropriation so obligated, rather than some other appropriation that may later be current when the travel is completed and the claim for reimbursement is processed. 2. Service members who commenced permanent change-of- station moves between October 1 and December 19, 1985, were entitled to a dislocation allowance at a rate equal to 2 months' basic allowance for quarters. Funds appropriated for the Department of Defense by fiscal year 1986 continu- ing resolution for that period remained available for pay- ment of the dislocation allowance to those service members at that rate, even though the regular appropriation act of December 19, 1985, reduced the rate at which the allowance could be paid. DECISION The issue presented here is whether Staff Sergeant Frank D. Carr, United States Marine Corps, is entitled to payment of a dislocation allowance equal to 2 months of basic allow- ance for quarters (BAQ) on the basis of a permanent change of station he completed before December 19, 1985, even though his claim for reimbursement was partially processed after the enactment on that date of the Department of Defense (DOD) Appropriation Act, 1986, which provided that (n)one of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to pay a dislocation allowance . . . in excess of

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