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B-194837 1 (1979-08-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhmm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: STHE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FILE: B-i 4337 DATE: August 8, 1979 MATTER : Robert N. Havens - Temporary quarters subsistence expenses DIGEST: Employee and family are not entitled to temporary quarters subsistence expenses for meals and cleaning while occupying apartment leased as permanent residence at new duty station and while awaiting arrival of household goods. Mr. Edwin J. Fost, Ch ounting Section, Office T Controller, Drug Enforcemet A min fation (DEA), Department of Justice, equests our decision on the entitlement of Mr. Robert N. Havens to temporary quarters subsistence expenses. The issue is whether temporary subsistence expenses for meals and cleaning are payable when the employee and his family occupy their new permanent residence while awaiting the arrival of household goods incident to a permanent change of station. Mr. Havens, a DEA employee, transferred his permanent duty station from Alpine, Texas, to Miami, Florida, pursuant to travel orders of August 21, 1978, which authorized temporary quarters sub- sistence expenses for 30 days in Miami. His new permanent Miami residence was an apartment under a lease dated September 10, 1978. Mr. Havens obtained temporary lodging for the period September 20 through 22, and he has furnished lodging receipts for that period. He then occupied his permanent apartment, his wife and 13-month-old daughter sleeping on the floor and remaining there during the day between September 23, and October 5, 1978. Mr. Havens says that for the latter period he slept in his car parked in the apartment house parking lot. He maintains that such occupancy of the apartment, in- cluding use of telephone and bathroom, was required because his household furniture had not yet arrived in Miami. Further, he says temporary quarters were unavailable within a 25-mile radius of his apartment because of conventions being held in Miami. The expenses in question, other than a $2 cleaning bill, were for meals of Mr. and Mrs. Havens and their 13-month-old child. This Office has consistently held that an employee may not be reimbursed temporary quarters subsistence expenses during the period he occupies the residence in which he intends to remain, irrespective

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