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B-191550 1 (1978-08-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoyx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-191550 DIGEST f- L- -~ 7AYl \ THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATEB WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20548 DATE: Auuast 11, 1972 MATTER OF: Sergeant First Class * USA Retired DIGEST: A member's claim for personal and dependent's travel from his last duty station to a place contended to be his bona fide home of selection for retirement, Kansas City, Missouri, is dis- allowed, since he has shown no evidence of actual and continuous residence at that place and the fact that his family from whom he is separated have established a residence there does not provide basis for payment. However, the member may be paid for his personal travel to Grovetown, Georgia, where he actually estab- lished a residence after retirement. This action is in resnse to a letter dated November 14, 1977, from Sergeant First Class , USA, Retired, which in effect constitutes an appeal from a settlement by the Claims Division of this Office dated February 10, 1977, which disallowed his claim for personal and dependent travel allowances incident to his retirement from the United States Army. By Paragraph 16, Special Orders No. 51, dated March 14, 1975, issued by Headquarters United States Army Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, was relieved from active duty on May 31, 1975, and placed on the retired list on June 1, 1975. The member's wife and daughter, unaccompanied by him, traveled from Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, to Kansas City, Missouri, on or about May 23, 1975. During the period June 3-5, 1975, he also traveled to Kansas City, but departed June 9, 1975, for Fort Gordon, Georgia, arriving on or about June 11, 1975. In his original submission of the claim, he stated that his bona fide home of selection was Kansas City, Missouri, and that he intended to travel within the continental United States until he found employment. Our Claims Division disallowed claim on the basis that he remained in Kansas City only a few days before leaving for the Fort Gordon area, where he apparently 440

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