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B-233430 1 (1988-12-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnik0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Charles Runyon - Time Limitation For Claiming Real Matterof: Estate Expenses File: B-233430 Date: December 15, 1988 DIGEST The Federal Travel Regulations require that a transferred employee go to settlement within 3 years from the duty reporting date in order to be reimbursed for real estate expenses. The agency's omission of an employee's correct duty reporting date is an error apparent on the face of the travel order and may be retroactively modified to reflect the date the employee actually reported for duty. DECISION The issue in this decision is whether an employee may be reimbursed for real estate expenses where settlement occurred more than 3 years after the employee was scheduled to report for duty at the new duty station. We hold that the employee may be reimbursed since settlement occurred within 3 years from when the employee actually reported for duty at the new duty station. BACKGROUND Mr. Charles Runyon was transferred from Lafayette, New Jersey, to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and the Department of the Army initially gave Mr. Runyon the duty reporting date of January 22, 1984. This date, however, was a Sunday and Mr. Runyon did not report to work until Monday, January 23, 1984. Mr. Runyon spoke with the transportation officer at the Department of the Army to try to correct the reporting date to January 23, 1984, and the officer assured him that the Army would modify his reporting date if it became necessary. Mr. Runyon scheduled settlement for the sale of his residence in Lafayette, New Jersey, for January 22, 1987, but a severe snowstorm precluded settlement on this date.

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