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B-245015 1 (1991-11-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnyy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ' 1 Comptroller General of'e United St n asin wn 1,4,.20648_ Decision Matter ot': Timothy J, Oliver - Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expense - Home Prepared Meals - Alternate Method of Determining Costs File: B-245015 Date: November 4, 1991 DIGEST A transferred employer: filed a claim for temporary quarters subsistence expenses. The daily per meal cost claimed for himself, his wife, and 21-month-old child was questioned by the agency as not reasonable because the amounts stated were repetitious, excessive and could not be substantiated. Where the cost of home prepared meals cannot be substantiated, the agency may establish reasonableness of home meal costs by using statistics and other information gathered by government agencies regarding living costs in the relevant area, including the Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Information Service food cost schedule, and may reduce the claim accordingly. DECISION This decision is in response to a request from the Department of the Interior,1 It involves the entitlement of an employee to be reimbursed for the cost of home prepared meals as part of temporary quarters subsistence expenses (TOSE) incident to a permanent change of station in March 1991. We conclude that the employee may receive reduced reimbursement for the following reasons. BACKGROUND Mr. Timothy J. Oliver, an employee of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was transferred to Aberdeen, South Dakota, accompanied by his wife and child, age 21 months. Mr. Oliver's initial travel orders authorized him 30 days temporary quarters occupancy. The orders were subsequently amended several times to authorize him a total of 90 days. Mr. Oliver and his family began temporary quarters occupancy in the Aberdeen area on March 11, 1991, where they remained I Rodney H. Young, Chief, Division of Accounting Management, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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