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B-237554 1 (1990-11-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnvc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4Comptroler General of the United States Wauldngton, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Crew of the USS San Jacinto - Claim for Family Separation Allowance File: B-237554 Date: November 2, 1990 DIGEST Navy personnel who served on duty on board a ship for a continuous period of more than 30 days at a site away from its home port are entitled by statute to a Family Separation Allowance for ship duty (FSA-S). The fact that they had been receiving an allowance for temporary duty away from their duty station (FSA-T), which also has a 30-day requirement, while preparing the ship to be commissioned, does not alter their statutory entitlement DECISION This is in response to a request from the Disbursing Officer of the USS San Jacinto regarding the entitlement of 51 crew members of the ship to Family Separation Allowance (FSA). For the reasons presented below, the crew members are entitled to FSA, in the amount of $44 each, for the period in question. The home port of the USS San Jacinto is Norfolk, Virginia. Before it was commissioned, the ship was in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The 51 crew members involved here arrived at the ship on temporary duty at various times and were receiving FSA for temporary duty (FSA-T) as they prepared the ship to be commissioned. On January 8, 1988, the ship was commissioned and went into special status, i.e., in neither active nor inactive status. The crew remained on the ship and continued to receive FSA-T until the ship returned to its home port on January 30. Navy auditors later determined that FSA-T should have terminated when the temporary precommissioning unit was inactivated on January 8. They reasoned that because the temporary duty technically had ended, any FSA paid from January 8-30 would have to be FSA for duty on a ship (FSA-S), and that FSA-S was not authorized because the ship returned to its home port within 30 days after January 8. 0APIQQD U / 14c 4va'

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