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B-192267.2 1 (1989-02-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnjw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: H ' , e The Comptroller General of the United States ~ Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Carl M. Bauer - Separate Maintenance Allowance Matter of: B-192267.2 File: Date: February 17, 1989 DIGEST The Separate Maintenance Allowance (SMA) authorized in 5 U.S.C. S 5924 to be paid to an employee when assigned to a post in a foreign area that is dangerous, unhealthful, or where living conditions are adverse in order to enable the employee to meet the additional expenses of maintaining a spouse or dependents elsewhere, may not be paid to an employee when his wife has maintained a separate household for more than 2 years before he was assigned to work in Saudi Arabia. Since the assignment overseas was not the cause for the maintenance of separate households, the employee is not entitled to SMA. DECISION This decision is in response to an appeal filed by Carl M. Bauer from a determination reached by our Claims Group in Settlement Certificate Z-2865034, June 10, 1988, denying his claim for a Separate Maintenance Allowance (SMA) for his wife incident to his relocation from California to Saudi Arabia in 1985. We affirm the denial of his claim. BACKGROUND Mr. Carl M. Bauer, an employee of the General Services Administration (GSA), was officially transferred in 1985 from Menlo Park, California, to Saudi Arabia for a 2-year period. Mr. Bauer traveled to Saudi Arabia unaccompanied by Mrs. Bauer. It is for this 2-year period that Mr. Bauer requests that SMA be paid since he had to maintain a separate household elsewhere for his wife who continued to live in Saipan while Mr. Bauer lived in Saudi Arabia. Mr. Bauer has given several reasons for separation ranginq from continuinq financial difficulties to the Saudi Arabian climate.

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