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B-256576 1 (1996-01-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadoz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Tita D. Corpuz and John R. Fears File: B-256576 Date: January 17, 1996 DIGEST 1. Agency's determination that various charges incident to occupancy of temporary quarters are allowable is not arbitrary, capricious, or contrary to law. Hence two transferred employees who occupied temporary quarters in rented apartments may be reimbursed subsistence expenses incurred in renting temporary quarters, including rent, apartment application or administrative fees, the cost of transporting rental furniture into the temporary quarters, a final cleaning fee, a security alarm fee, and a police alarm permit. However, a telephone installation fee may not be reimbursed as a subsistence expense. 2. A transferred employee who entered into a 6-month apartment lease for temporary quarters occupancy had to pay a lease-breaking fee when he vacated the apartment after approximately 4 months. His lease-breaking fee may be reimbursed if the agency finds that it meets the standards applicable to other lodging expenses incurred by employees authorized to occupy temporary quarters. Patsy S. Ricard, 67 Comp. Gen. 285, 290 (1988); David E. Nowak, 65 Comp. Gen. 805 (1986); Alex Kale, 55 Comp. Gen. 779, 782-83 (1976); and Walter V. Smith, B-186435, Feb. 23, 1979, are overruled to the extent they are inconsistent with this decision. DECISION The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) requests a decision concerning the entitlement of two employees to be reimbursed for certain lodging expenses each incurred while in temporary quarters.1 As discussed below, some of the expenses claimed by each may be reimbursed. Mrs. Tita D. Corpuz and Mr. John R. Fears are employees of the VA who were transferred to the VA Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, in March and May 1993, 1Mr. Danny J. Ford, Chief, Fiscal Service, Carl T. Hayden Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona (Ref. 644/04). 148111

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