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B-231512 1 (1989-09-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnpg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Jerry W. Blevins - Claim for Temporary Quarters Matterof- Subsistence Expenses File: B-231512 Date: September 21, 1989 DIGEST 1. An employee, who was removed from his position in Europe in 1983, returned to the United States at his own expense. When his removal was overturned in 1985, the agency issued travel orders to reimburse him for his and his family's relocation expenses. Under the circumstances, the employee should be given a further opportunity to prove his relocation expenses. 2. When an employee and his family stay in the home of his parents, the amount paid to the host must reasonably reflect the added expenses to the host and must not be determined on the basis of the comparative cost of commercial quarters. Since there are not, and never were, any records of the added expenses to the host, we must deny the employee's claim for the lodgings portion of his temporary quarters subsistence expenses. 3. Where an employee no longer has any detailed records of meal expenses for his temporary quarters claim but merely estimates the cost, he has failed to meet his burden of proof. However, in view of the length of time between the employee's improper discharge and reinstatement, and the lack of any extant records, we are returning the meal expenses portion of his temporary quarters claim to the Army so that it may determine the reasonableness of that expenditure based on valid statistical references and thus reimburse the employee on that basis. 4. Since a federal employee is not a business concern, the Prompt Payment Act may not be used as authority to pay him an interest penalty on his claim for temporary quarters subsistence expenses.

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