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B-206980 1 (1982-11-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkrz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-206980 MATTER OF: DIGEST: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL ., .I OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 DATE: November 4, 1982 Sergeant Luis C. Armendariz, USAF A service member who is single, without dependents, was assigned to a Government- leased apartment. While the apartment did not qualify as family quarters because of size, it still substantially exceeded the single member housing standards of the Air Force. In line with the purpose for which a basic allowance for quarters at the par- tial rate (37 U.S.C. 1009) is payable and the reasoning in 56 Comp. Gen. 894 (1977), since the member's housing here is of a significantly higher value than would normally be assigned him, the member is not entitled to a basic allowance for quarters at the partial rate while so assigned. This action is in response to a request for a decision from the Accounting and Finance Officer, Travis Air Force Base, concerning the entitlement of Sergeant Luis C. Armendariz, USAF, to receive a basic allowance for quarters at the partial rate while occupying Government-leased quarters. This matter has been assigned control number DO-AF-1387 by the Department of Defense Military Pay and Allowance Committee. The question asked is whether a basic allowance for quarters at the partial rate is payable to a single member when he is assigned to quarters which substantially exceed the minimum criteria for single-type housing but are not considered adequate by the service concerned for classification as family-type quarters because they include only one bedroom. In this circumstance we hold that basic allowance for quarters at the partial rate is not payable. According to the submission, in January 1980 Sergeant Armendariz, who is single and is a

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