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B-231839 1 (1989-02-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnjl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .. zThe Comptroler General of the United States Wasklag D.C. 20548 Decision Mimi J. Sanchez - Real Estate Expenses - Mattero: Title Requirements File: B-231839 Date: February 9, 1989 DIGEST A transferred employee who has remained legally married and whose husband resided with her continuously in the same household at the old duty station is entitled to receive full reimbursement of real estate expenses associated with the sale of her residence at the old duty station. Her filing of a petition for legal separation which was later withdrawn without any court action does not affect the result. DECISION This decision concerns the entitlement of Mrs. Mimi J. Sanchez to full reimbursement for expenses incurred incident to the sale of her residence at her former duty station. The Social Security Administration (SSA) reimbursed Mrs. Sanchez for only one-half of the expenses she claimed because it was unsure of whether she was legally separated from her husband, with whom she held title to the residence, at the time she reported to her new duty station. For the reasons that follow, we have determined that Mrs. Sanchez is entitled to full reimbursement of real estate expenses associated with the sale of her residence at the old duty station. BACKGROUND By travel order dated May 21, 1987, Mrs. Sanchez was author- ized an official change of duty station from Seattle, Washington, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and she reported for duty at the new location on July 13, 1987. Homequity, an agent of the SSA, contracts to provide service to transferring employees. Mrs. Sanchez elected to use Homequity's guaranteed home sale service in order to sell her residence in Seattle. In compliance with its contract 04s4 6O/I 3i7/2

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