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B-219186 1 (1985-10-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduys0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FIMM ONLY C~ K COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON DC. 20548 3-219186 October 15, 1985 REFLEASED. 'he Honorable Charles E. Grassley Inited States Senator 103 Federal Building 120 6th Street ,ioux City, Iowa 51101 )ear Senator Grassley: This is in reply to your letter of June 11, 1985, con- ,erning your constituent, , presently esiding in Austria, who left Government service in July 983 while stationed in Munich, Germany. You stated that rour letter to us was at the direction of the Office of the :hief of Legislative Liaison, Department of the Army, and ,ou furnished us with a copy of the Army's response to your )riginal request. The Congressional Coordinator of that ffice suggested that Mr. direct to us his sugges- ion that our decision , 63 Comp. Gen. 281/ 1984), be made retroactive to cover his own situation. In his letter to you dated March 12, 1985, Mr. -efers to our decision, _ __ __, cited above, ,hich reversed a long-standing position of our Office ,hat employees separated overseas must return to their ,ountry of actual residence to be entitled to separation ilowances. In , we held that such employees could e eligible for. travel and transportation allowances to a ocation of their choice, within or outside the United tates, provided that such cost does not exceed the cost to he actual place of previous residence. Our reversal of osition resulte4 from a changed interpretation applied to U.S.C. S 5722 V19 2) which took into consideration that 7 U.S.C. 1 404(c)V(1982) grants members of the uniformed ervices travel and transportation allowances to any world- ide location they select upon separation. To prevent njustice and hardship and to eliminate the unfair dispar- ty between civilian employees and service members, we imilarly permitted travel and transportation within the bove described cost limitations to any location for ivilian employees upon separation overseas. The 1p!

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