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B-193504 1 (1979-08-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhmo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Y C,. THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WA-SHINGTON, D. C. 20548 FILE: B-193504 DATE: August 9, 1979 MATTER OF: Mr. Jesse A. Atkins--Reimbursement for meals DIGEST: Employee's claim for cost of dinners purchased after his arrival at a temporary duty station in a high cost geographical area may not be allowed since he traveled on airplane flights paid for by the Government on which dinner was served. The facts that he may not have eaten the furnished meals by personal choice, or that he desired additional food, are not sufficiently justifying reasons to allow reimburse- ment for additional dinner meals pur- chased after his arrival destination. Mr. Jesse A. Atkins, Naval Sea Systems Command, requests reconsideration of our Claims Division 'settlement dated September 26, 1978, which disallowed hispaim for reimbursement of d4-nse meals 4t-e purchased incid nt to temporary duty trave jto Los Angeles, Californial k igbt4 cost geographical area). The denial of his claim is sustained since he could have eaten the meals served on the airline flights he used, and his reasons for not doing so do not justify reimbursement by the Government for additional meals in the circumstances. The employee, on two occasions, was assigned temporary duty from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, California, and claimed $8.75 as reimbursement for dinner meals purchased on July 19, 1976 ($4.50) and September 22, 1976.($4.25), after his commercial flights (providing in-flight meals) had landed in Los Angeles. His claim for reimbursement for the dinner meals pur- chased was administratively denied and then disallowed by Claims Division settlement-d-ated .September 26, 1978 (citing decision B-185826, May 28, 197T ess-aenflally-because dinner meals were included in the price of his airline tickets and available to him, and in the absence of justifiable reasons why he did not partake of the meals served, no reimbursement could be made for the dinner meals claimed.

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