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B-203080 1 (1982-06-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkjk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: IDECISION FILE; MATTER C DIGEL ST: I- THU~ OMPTRDL.LEII1 OF THt UNITED WA sI I NOTONID ,t B-203080 GENTAL G3 TAT HE 0 0, 0015ttl DATEI Jtne 8, 1982 I . 3F: Billy J. Stafford - Per Diem and Travel Expenses While on Temporar4 Duty - IliI 1. An employee became incapacitated and was hospitalized at a temporar9, duty station. Subsequently, he vias Ire- leased from the hospital to transfer to another medical facility nearer his home for continued treatment# Provisions of 5 U.S.C. 5 5702(b) (1976), and FTR paragraph 1-7.5b(1).-are to be liberally construed in order to accom- plish the statute's equitable ptrpose. Therefore, an employee who bev.omes incapacitated while away on temporary duty is entitled to receive up to 14 days of per diem for the period of his incapacitation while away from his post of duty. L ie u!s 2. Under FTR paragraphs 1-2.4 and 1-2.5b, an employee who become3 incapacitated while away on temporary duty is en- titled to reiribursement of those travel expenses sufficient to return the em- ployee from his temporary duty station to his post of duty by a direct and usually traveled route. The Chief of the Accountihg Soction of the South- west Region, Internal Revenue Pervice (IRS), has asked this Office for a decision as to whether she may properly certify for payment the claim of Billy J. Stafford, an employee of IRS. Mr. Stafford seeks payment for travel expenses and per diem in connection with his incapacita- tion due to illness while on temporary duty away from his post of duty. ,3eca'se Hr. Stnfford returned to hir post of duty by an indirect rout. in order to obtain further medical treatment, IRS limited reimbursement on his original voucher to the travel expenses and per diem to which he would have been entitled had he returned via a direct rotte. tic. Stafford has reclaimed the additional travel expenses and per diem. t - 4 - I - 110 '' r'rft , %*..9q, e#SrWf 0 r -4Y !- %F FIfp-t. 9f , 9- - I*. p.-.- . 1% q9'1 , . j- *- 0- * e ,f v 0 - -., 0 1. - ,-0 -, . I

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