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B-179583 1 (1974-07-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadccg0001 and id is 1 raw text is:                                  THE  COMPTROLLER GENERAL
    OECISION         *           OF   THE UNITED STATES
                                 WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548




    FILE:                               DATE:          JUL 31 194
          . B-179583
    MATTER OF:
                   Claim fo  temporary quarters allowaa

    DIGEST:
               Temporary quarters allowance may not be paid to employee
               who, for 11 Months prior to transfer, had been detailed
               to area of new duty station where, for period for which
               he claims temoorary quarters allowance, he and his family
               continued to occuoy rented apartment in wAich they had
               resided during detail. Subsection 8.2c of CPB Circular
               No. A-56, Revised Auust 17, 1971, defines temporary
               quarters in terms of lodgings occupied after employee
               ad/or  family vacatis residence quarters in which they
               were residing at tha time the transfer was authorized.

     This action is uine the request by an Authorized Certifying Officer
for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for an opinion as to the entitle-
ment of Mr. Walter C..Janes, an IRS employee, to an allowance for tempo-
rary quartefr for the period from June 11, 1972, through June 18, 1972.
Mr. Jones, who has been allowed temporary quarters expenses in the mount
of $84 for the period from June 11 through June 18 has now submitted a
supplemental voucher in the amount of $73.50 for temporary lodging
expenses for that same period.

     Prior to his change of official station from Jacksonville to Miami,
Florida, on Auust 11, 1972, Mr. Jones had been detailed to the Miami
area.  His letter dated November 15, 1972, on the subject of his moving
expenses states that his family accompanied him to Miami on July 16, 1971,
in connection with that detail and that they resided in Miami for the
period of his detail in a rented apartment. The employee and his family
were occuuYing those leased auarters at tie date of his transfer on
June 11, 1972, and remained there until June 18, 1972, when they moed
late a home  in the Miami area that the employee had purchased.

     Mr. Jones has Indicated that for the period after June 11, 1972, and
util  June 25, 1972, 30 days after he he given written notice of his
Intent to terminate the lease, he ias required to pay rent in the mount
of $157.50 and by his supplemental voucher has claimed additional teano-
rary quarters expenses for the period from June 11 through June 18 based
an that total amount which he indicates he was required to pay regardless




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