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B-202865 1 (1982-02-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkaz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: (~4d cc .t t -r *7* DECISION THE C-CMPT RO-LttoR GrENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WAS HIhITO No o Do, 20548 B-202865 DATE: February 93 1982 MATTER OF; DIGEST: Mr, Warren Es Pendleton mployee of Department of the Army stationed in Saudi Arabia, whose married daughter and grandchild lived with him, may not be reimbursed for their travel to the Unit ed States by commercial air in lieu of space- available Government aircraft incident to his change-of-station transfer, While it is not clear why they were denied space-available transportation, at no cost, the law limits the entitle- ment of an employee to the trans- portation expenses for his immediate family in connection with a change of station, Para, 2-1,4d of the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) defines immediate family for pur oses of authorizing travel and since neither the daughter nor the grandchild come within this definition no entitlement to reimbursement for the costs of their transportation exists. It This action responds to a letter dated February 28, 1981, with enclosures, from Mr. Warren E. Pendleton, a civilian employee of the Department of the Army, concerning his entitlement to be reimbursed for the cost of transporting his daughter and granddaughter from Saudi Arabia to New York incident to a permanent change-of-station move in September 1979. Mr. Pendleton may not be reimbursed by the United States for this expense. Our Claims Group disallowed his claim by settlement dated January 22, 1981, based on a finding that neither his daughter nor his granddaughter qualified as part of his immediate family under the regulations which authorize transportation at Government expense. In response, Mr. Pendleton contends that Department Defense regulations governipy transportation on a space- available basis, in effect, do not require that a close- blood or affinitive relati've be a dependent or part of of I fII.,, • a'. 4 /7 FILE:

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