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B-191401 1 (1978-12-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgtq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 I~IT~S FILE: B-191401 MATTER C DIGEST: DATE: December 27, 1978 )F: Richard E. Nunn -GTemporary Quarters Subsistence Expenses 1. Transferred employee, who was authorized temporary quarters subsistence expenses allowance, agreed to pay mother-in-law $22.50 for room and board of three children. Agency determined that expenditure of $12 per day for food was unreasonable since statistical data showed that reasonable expenditure would be $7.74 per day. Agency determination is reversed since agency failed to consider fact that $12 amount was reached by preparing a sample week's shopping list usinq actual market orices, that his mother- in-law prepared the three meals, and that employee negotiated rate with his mother- in-law in good faith. 2. Transferred employee who was authorized temporary quarters subsistence expenses allowance, agreed to pay mother-in-law for room and board of his three daughters. Agency determination that $10.50 per day for rooms was unreasonable is reversed as arbitrary. We find rate was reasonable since $10.50 was consider- ably less than commercial rate, mother- in-law exoerienced inconvenience by staying with neighbor, except when she prepared meals, cleaned house and chaperoned children, children expended large amount of utilities, and employee negotiated rate in good faith. This action is in resnonse to a letter from Mr. W. Sallets, Chief, Finance and Accounting, Central t Service, National Security Agency (NSA), ecues ing a decision as to whether the NSA orooerly de a portion of the claim of Mr. Richard E. Nunn for temoorary quarters subsistence expenses (TQSE)

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