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B-232858 1 (1989-04-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnkz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 2 i C C \The Comptroller General of the United States Washmgon, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Defense Logistics Agency - Fraudulent Meal Claims File: B-232858 Date: April 21, 1989 DIGEST Four employees admitted providing false information on travel vouchers for the cost of meals and incidental expenses incurred while on temporary duty. Where any subsistence item shown on a voucher for a particular day is fraudulent, the finding taints the entire per diem or actual expenses for that day. Thus, lodging claims for the same days of duty may not be paid. DECISION Four civilian employees of the Defense Logistics Agency admitted providing false information concerning meals and incidental expenses on vouchers they submitted relating to temporary duty travel in connection with computer training in June 1983. As a result of the agency's investigation, the employees were reprimanded. They presented claims for lodging, supported by apparently valid receipts, relating to the same days of temporary duty. The agency disallowed the lodging claims based on the applicable regulation which provides that where an employee falsifies a claimed expense for lodging, meals or incidentals, the per diem or actual expense allowance will be denied for the entire day on which the falsified expense is claimed. See Joint Travel Regula- tions, vol. 2, para. C4352 (Change No. 234, April 1, 1985). The employees requested that the claims be submitted to this Office for decision.l/ We agree with the agency's determination. Where an employee submits a travel voucher on which claims for subsistence expenses are based on fraud, each day constitutes a separate item of expenses and is considered separately. A fraudulent 1/ This matter was assigned Control No. 88-15 by the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee.

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