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B-259960 1 (1995-09-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptabzw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Darrell M. Thrasher File: B-259960 Date: September 21, 1995 DIGEST Department of the Army employee responded to a job opportunity announcement which specified that permanent change-of-station benefits would not be paid. He thereafter sought reimbursement for his relocation expenses based on his Mobility Agreement which stated in part that benefits will be provided under controlling regulations. Under Reconsideration of Platt, 61 Comp. Gen. 156 (1981), agencies may issue a regulation which sets forth conditions under which relocation expenses will or will not be paid, provided that the information is clearly communicated in advance and in writing. Paragraph C4100-2(c) of Volume 2, Joint Travel Regulations, is controlling and specifically provides for such discretionary determination. Since the job opportunity announcement stated that the benefits would not be paid, the claim is denied. DECISION This decision responds to correspondence from Mr. Darrell M. Thrasher, who is appealing our Claims Group's Settlement Z-2869317, Dec. 9, 1994, which disallowed his claim for relocation expenses incident to his transfer in March 1993. We sustain our Claims Group's action for the following reasons. Mr. Thrasher was employed as a Grade GS-9, step 5, Telecommunications Specialist for the Department of the Army (DA) at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. He responded to a DA civilian job opportunity announcement for a career position as a Telecommunications Specialist in its Information Management career program (entry level GS-5 or GS-7, with promotion potential to GS-11), which was to begin as a 2-year training program at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He was accepted into the program and took a reduction to grade GS-7, executed a DA Employment and Mobility Agreement (DA Form 5227-R) and traveled to Fort Sam Houston to begin training. Although no travel authorization was issued to him for that move, he thereafter sought reimbursement for relocation benefits. 830921

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