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B-181573 1 (1975-02-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadced0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Jo THE COMPTRC..LER GENERAL oEnISI oNr OF THE UNITED STATE3 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 FILE:B-181573 DATE: FEB 2 7 1975 MATTER OF: James C. Myers - Relocation travel of dependents. DIGEST: 1. No authority exists for payment of additional per diem for dependents of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employee for period of hospitalization of employee's wife during separate travel incident to permanent change of station, since entitlement is limited to constructive cost of direct travel. 2. Where wife of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin- istration employee performed first portion of permanent- change-of-station travel by privately owned vehicle, reim- bursement was properly based upon mileage for this portion rather than higher cost of commercial travel, since constructive cost of direct travel represents upper limit on Government's liability and is to be reduced if actual travel is accomplished for less. This action concerns an appeal by Mr. James C. Myers from our Transportation and Claims Division's settlement, dated Harch 29, 1973, of his claim for additional per diem for his wife and children while traveling in June 1971, incident to his permanent-change-of-station move from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Garden City, Kansas. Mr. Myers is an enployee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin- istration, Department of Commerce. Travel was authorized by Travel Order No. Tl-TFC-0796, dated April 6, 1971. Pursuant to this order, Mr. Myers performed his travel in April 1971, with his wife and two children (then ages 8 and 11) scheduled to follow in June upon expiration of the school term. Mrs. Myers, then 4 months pregnant, departed Cape Hatteras by privately owned vehicle with the children at 11 a.m. on June 4, arriving at Norfolk, Virginia, at 2 p.m., a distance of approximately 150 miles. They left Jorfolk by commercial air carrier at 3:20 p.m. on the same day, and arrived at Indianapolis, Indiana, a scheduled stop, later that evening. Mrs. Myers became ill at Indianapolis, was hospitalized, and suffered a miscarriage. She was hospitalized from June 7 to June 13. She was advised by her doctor not to travel for at least a week and she did not resume travel until June 22, at which time she and the children proceeded to Garden City by air. After National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) paid certain allowable expenses on his original voucher, Mr. Myers submitted -1.5-0(

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