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B-235659 1 (1989-09-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnpa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: zThe Comptroller General of the United States C6A Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Robin L. Miller--Fee for Electronic Transfer of Matter of: Funds File: B-235659 Date: September 18, 1989 DIGEST An employee, who failed to negotiate a travel advance check prior to her departure on temporary duty, may not be reimbursed for the fee incurred when a relative sent funds via wire service. DECISION This responds to a request for an advance decision submitted by C. K. Hardy, Finance and Accounting Officer, United States Army White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, concern- ing the claim of Ms. Robin L. Miller, an Army employee, for reimbursement of a $75 fee for electronic transfer of funds. The matter was forwarded to our Office by the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee, PDTATAC Control No. 89-9. For the reasons stated below, we hold that the employee is not entitled to reimbursement of the fee as part of her expenses for temporary duty travel. BACKGROUND Ms. Miller, an employee of the Department of the Army stationed in New Mexico, was issued a travel advance by United States Treasury check dated November 1, 1988, in the amount of $1,874. On November 13, 1988, she left her permanent duty station for a 6-day training course in New Jersey, without cashing the check. After attempting unsuccessfully to negotiate the check in New Jersey, Ms. Miller had her mother send her $1,874 through Western Union. Ms. Miller now requests reimbursement of the $75 fee charged for the wire service. OPINION The agency asks whether the wire service fee may be reimbursed as a check cashing fee similar to the one considered in Wayne J. Henderson, 61 Comp. Gen. 585 (1982),

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