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B-197958 1 (1980-03-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadicz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: OECI8ION A*01LER C ( - o THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: B-197958/ './ AT :March 31, 1980 MATTER OF: Richard E. Hoffman - Temporary quarters subsistence expenses Employee is entitled to temporary quarters subsistence expenses where he occupied empty room in garage of house he contracted to purchase as his permanent residence prior to date he had right to occupy residence itself. Regardless of whether attached to or detached from house, garage is not generally intended as living quarters, and its occupancy does not constitute occupancy of permanent residence quarters under FTR para. 2-5.2. Compare B-174971, February 28, 1972. We have been asked to determine whether an employee may be reimbursed temporary quarters subsistence expenses for the period that he and his wife occupied the detached garage of the house which he purchased as his permanent residence. Since the employee did not have the right to occupy any part of the house itself, he may be paid temporary quarters subsistence expenses for the period he and his wife stayed in the garage. The claim for temporary quarters subsistence expenses for the period from October 25 through November 4, 1979, was sub- mitted by Richard E. Hoffman, an employee of the National Park Service, U.S. Department-of the Interior, incident to his transfer from Skagway, Alaska, to Seattle, Washington, on September 25, 1979. In connection with his transfer from Alaska, Mr. Hoffman w'as authorized temporary quarters subsis- tence expenses beyond the initial 30-day period as provided for at Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) (FPMR 101-7) para. 2-5.2b. Beginning September 25, 1979, and pending his purchase of a house in Seattle, Mr. Hoffman and his wife stayed in a motel. They have been reimbursed temporary quarters subsistence expenses through October 24, 1979, the period they resided in commercially rented quarters. Mr. Hoffman explains that although the motel was modestly priced, the allowance he received had not, since October 15, 1979, covered the costs of lodgings and meals they incurred. To reduce their living costs, the Hoffmans, on October 25, 1979, rented and occupied an empty room in the '1 DIGEST: moO'

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