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B-202313 1 (1981-10-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjur0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 97L-13 DECISION I FILE: B-202313 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D. C. 20548 DATE: October 9, 1981 MATTER OF: Sergeant Paul T. Longendyck, USA An Army member's claim for travel expenses and a dislocation allowance for his wife's an d-chdld's travellto his new permanent duty station may not be allowed. Although such travel was mistakenly provided for in the member's orders, on the effective date of his orders (the date he was required to begin travel to his new duty station) his wife was on active duty in the Army and she was claiming their child as a dependent. Since a member may not claim a spouse, who is also a member entitled to basic pay, as a dependent for transpor- tation expenses and since the wife was claiming the child as her dependent, the member had no dependents for transporta- tion or dislocation allowance purposes. This is in response to a request for an advance decision as to the entitlement of an Army member to travel allowances for his wife's and child's travel to his new duty station and a dislocation allowance. We find that he is not entitled to those allowances because on the effective date of his change- of-station orders he could not claim his wife and child as dependents since his wife was then also on active duty in the Army and she was claiming the child as her dependent. This question was submitted for an advance decision by the Finance and Accounting Officer, 172d Infantry Brigade, Fort Richardson, Alaska. The Per Diem, Travel and Transporta- tion Allowance Committee forwarded the request to us under Control No. 81-7. Background The question concerns Sergeant Paul T. Longendyck, USA, who by permanent change-of-station orders dated April 26, 1979, was reassigned from Fort Bliss, Texas, to Fort Richardson, Alaska, where he was assigned Government quar- ters. Sergeant Longendyck's orders required him to travel on June 18, 1979, and authorized deferred travel of his dependents. Sergeant Longendyck departed for Alaska on June 18, 1979, and arrived there on June 22, 1979. DIGEST:

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