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B-195319 1 (1980-01-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhxy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G'rr.I o ~. THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 NIT ~ FILE: B-195319 DATE: January 24, 1980 MATTER OF: Glenda White - laim for additional per diem based on commercial lodging rates DIGEST: Employee, who used.her camper at temporary duty site and paid $7 daily campground fee, claims per diem based on $19 rate for commercial lodgings on theory that she could have used commercial lodgings. Under lodgings-plus system, employee is entitled only to per diem based on average amount she actually paid for lodgings, not on basis of what she might have paid for other accommodations. See Doyt Y. Bolling, B-195638, September 14, 1979. This decision is in response to a request from Claude F. Pickelsimer, Director, Financial! Uanagement Office, CEnter for 103 3 Disease Control, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. (HEW), concerning the claim of Ms. Glenda White, an HEW employee, for additional per diem while she performedtemporary duty. The issue presented for decision is whether Ms. White may be reim- bursed a per diem allowance based on commercial lodgings rates which exceed her actual lodgings expenses. Ms. White was ordered to perform temporary duty in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and was authorized to travel by privately owned vehicle at her convenience, with reimbursement not to ex- ceed the cost of travel by common carrier. While Ms. White was in Chapel Hill, she occupied a camper and incurred lodgings ex- penses in the amount of $7 per day for campground space. Ms. White has been reimbursed for 2-3/4 days of per diem at a rate of $23 per day ($7 lodgings plus $16 for meals and miscel- laneous expenses), but she claims reimbursement for per diem at a rate of $35 per day on the theory that if she had traveled by common carrier she would have stayed in commercial lodgings costing at least $19 per day. Ms. White was authorized reimbursement for per diem at a rate of $35 on a lodgings-plus basis. Under the lodgings-plus system, the traveler's per diem is computed on the basis of the average amount the traveler pays for lodgings, rounded to the next whole dollar, plus an allowance of $16 for meals and mis- cellaneous expenses, not to exceed the maximum per diem rate of

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