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B-135058 1 (1971-07-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaafip0001 and id is 1 raw text is: LIA COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STAT ..9 WASHINGTON. D).C. 20548 / B-135058 ST CUJL1- A VA' L e (.8 Dear Mr. Gross: :roo560I This is in response to your letter of February 4, 1971, in which you asked the General Accounting Office to determine whether, at any time since 1966, the Institute for Defense Analyses has made expendi- tures or has provided to its employees fringe benefits similar to those mentioned in a July 1966 newspaper article forwarded with your request. The source of the information on which the article is based is a report dated February 18, 1966, by the Surveys and Investigations Staff of the House Committee on Appropriations. As a part of our audit, we have reviewed the Institute's regular fringe benefits--such as retirement and life, disability, and health insurance-wthich are funded jointly by deductions from employees' pay and contributions from the Institute. We also screened the miscella- neous reimbursements to Institute officials for entertainment and other out-of-pocket expenses they had incurred on behalf of the Institute. We examined the Institute's policies concerning reimburse- ments for travel expenses and dislocation and relocation allowances and examined a representative number of these reimbursements. We have found no evidence that the Institute regularly is paying any of the personal expenses of its officers or is authorizing any unusual type of expense allowance for them, but we have noted a few instances where employees have received reimbursements for out-of-the- ordinary expenditures. Details of these reimbursements follow. pecial dislocation allowance for outgoing president The'Institute paid one of its former presidents approximately $14,75 to cover his cost of moving from Boston, Massachusetts, to Washington, D. C., to assume the Institute's presidency. Approxi- mately $9,000 of this amount--$7,000 cash and $2,000 in withholding tax--was paid to him as a special dislocation allowance, and payment was made from funds the Institute had received as management fees. The authorization approving the allowance mentions, as justification for the payment, the unusual costs associated with obtaining housing in Washington, renting out the Cambridge, Massachusetts, house, and providing for private schools for the two children to minimize the disruption in their education. The actual costs incurred by the former president were not itemized, however, and the Institute was not able to furnish us irith documentation supporting the actual expenditures. 50TH ANNIVERSARY 1921-1971

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