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B-191087 1 (1978-03-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfua0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i DECISION FILE: B-191087 t* THE COMPTROLLER MENERAL oP THE UNITD. ETATES WASHINGITON. D. C. 20548 DATE: March 14, 1978 MATTER OF: Ronald F. Houska - Real Estate Expenses DIGEST: 1. Employee transferred to new duty b.z'ton is entitled to allowable real estate expenses if settlement of purchase at new location occurs within I (initial) year after date on which he reports to new station or with an additional 1-year poriod where an extension is granted. Determination to grant extension for an additional 1-year period is for head of agency in accord with FPMR 101-7, para. 2-6. le, and this Office wouid not object to such determination unless found to be arbitrary and capric Lous. 2. Loan origination charge is considered a finance change under Truth in Lending Act Title I, PL 90-321, and Regulation Z issued pursuant thereto by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and may not be reimbursed as part of the real estate expenses incurred incident to transfer. This matter i& before us as a request for an advance decision sub- mitted by the Controller, Ve erans Administration, regarding entitle- ment to payment of real estate expenses for a home purchased by 6n employee 15 months after he had reported for duty at the new station. Mr. Ronald F. Houska, an employee of the Veterans Ad minis tra - tion, received a permanent change of duty station from Leavenworth, Kansas, to Dayton, Ohio, with a reporting date of August 1, 1976. At the time of the transfer the employee was single. However, in Augast 1977 he got married and on October 31, 1977, made settlement on a home. He thereafter submitted a claim for reimbursenenc for real estate expenses incident to the purchase. The propriety of payment of this claim was questioned on the basis that the claim is after the fact and is more for the convenience of the employee and not in connection with a permanent change of station for the convenience± of the Government. Reimbursement to Federal employees of certain expenses incuri:ed in connection with residence transaction incident to a transfer of duty J I. 14 I -'

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