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B-183403 1 (1975-06-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadchj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL , E C(ISI3111 OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: DATE: JUN 2 0 1975 MATTE PCAP3 Fred T. Casteel - Subsistence while occupying temporary quarters . DIGEST: : Employee transferred from Washington, D. C., to Madison, West Virginia, moved into temporary quarters in Madison and on occasional weekends visited house family owned in Swmmersville, West Virginia. Payment of temporary quarters allowance for period claimed is proper since mployee vacated residence quarters in which residing at time transfer was authorized-- rented apartment in D. C. area-was required by regulations. Courts have defined residence as person's actual place of abode, whether temporary or permanent. Employee resided in D. C. area and no indication exists of any intention to depart therefrom prior to noti- fication of transfer to Hadison. Jeannette B. ilbanks, an Authorized Certifying Officer of the Bureau of Mines, United States Department of the Interior, by letter of March 4, 1975, requested an advance decision of that portion of a travel voucher submitted by Mr. Fred T. Casteel, an employee of the Bureau of Hines, for which he seeks reimbursement for subsistence while occupying temporary quarters under the circwistances stated below. The certifying officer apparently does not question the remainder of the travel voucher involving reimbursement of mileage and per diem in lieu of subsistence. MK. ilbanks states that Mr. Casteel was transferred from Sumersville, West Virginia, to Washingtons D. C., on February 3, 1974, and that he rented a furniohed apartment in the Washington, D. C. area. Hlowever, his household effacts were never moved to the new duty station and apparently he neither sold nor rented his former residence in Suameraville. On July 7, 1974, Mr. Casteel transferred to Madison, West Virginia. According to his voucher, he arrived in Madison on July 7, 1974, and lodged with friends. He was required to perform official travel back to Washington, D. C., from July 10 through July 13, 1974. The folloving day, July 14-*the first day fo),

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