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B-181475 1 (1975-02-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadceq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: o ~ ~ THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D. C. 20548 FILE: B-181475 DATE: :-6 MATTER OF: June Purcilly - Shipment of household effects from overseas station DIGEST: 1. Retiring USIA (Laos) employee who designated Florida as service separation residence, requesting that only 400 of 600 .pounds of effects be shipped there, remainder, on constructive cost basis, to Spain, and who traveled to Florida within limitation period, is entitled to travel expenses from Laos to Florida together with payment for requested shipments, notwithstanding agency policy that employee is only entitled to travel to place where bulk of effects are shipped upon separation, since under 6 FAM 125.9 separated employee has vested right to return travel to designated U.S. residence. 2. Retiring USIA employee, stationed in Laos, who upon separation traveled to designated separation residence in Florida, is entitled to payment under 6 FAM 125.9 for actual cost of shipment of 400 pounds of personal effects from Laos to Florida and under 6 FAM 163 to payment on constructive cost basis for shipment of 2,200 pounds of household effects from Laos to Spain. This action is a request from the Assistant Director, Personnel and Training, United States Information Agency (USIA), for an advance decision on the extent of USIA's authority under section 911(3) of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, and its implementing regulations to ship household effects of a retiring employee to more than one point of final residence. While formal Comptroller General decisions are generally rendered (with some exceptions not relevant here) only to heads of departments and agencies, disbursing and certifying officers and to claimants who have filed monetary claims with our Office, since the matter is of an urgent and possibly recurring nature, we are rendering a decision as if it had been submitted by the head of the USIA. Miss June Purcilly, a retired employee of the USIA, seeks reimbursement for her travel expenses from Vientiane, Laos, to Naples, Florida, as well as payment, on a constructive cost basis, for the - 1 -

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