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B-206456 1 (1983-03-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkyw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION • . OF THE UNITED ETATES WSHINGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: B-206456 DATE: March 25, 1983 MATTER OF: James H. Woods - Relocation Expenses - Dependents Acquired After Employee Reports to New Duty Station DIGEST: One month after an employee transferred to his new duty station in Panama, he was awarded custody of his brother's four children by court order. The employee incurred travel and temporary living expenses in moving the children to his new duty station. Expenses for the dependents travel to the new station may not be paid since the children were not members of the employee's immediate family within the meaning of FTR para. 2-1.4d at the time the employee reported to his new duty station. This decision involves the issue of whether James H. Woods, an employee of the General Accounting Office (GAO), is entitled to reimbursement for the travel and temporary living expenses of four children whose custody he was award- ed after a permanent change of duty station. We hold that, Mr. Woods may not be reimbursed the travel and temporary living expenses of the four children since they were not members of his immediate family at the time he reported for duty at his new duty station. Mr. Woods, a GAO Evaluator, was selected to fill a vacancy in the agency's branch office in the Republic of Panama. He received authorization to travel with his wife from Atlanta, Georgia, to Panama and to be reimbursed for necessary expenses relating to the permanent change of station. Mr. and Mrs. Woods arrived in Panama on June 20, 1980. On July 31, 1980, a little more than 1 month after his move to Panama, Mr. Woods was awarded custody of his brother's four minor children by court order. Mr. Woods then requested an amendment to his travel order to cover the expense of transporting the four children to Panama. Although his travel order was not amended, the children arrived in Panama on August 20, 1980, and joined Mr. Woods and his wife in their temporary quarters. Mr. Woods then submitted a voucher which included travel and temporary

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