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B-211310 1 (1983-10-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadljh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0\ THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION o.F THE UNITEO STATES WA SH-INGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-211310 DATE: October 4, 1983 MATTER OF: Patricia A. Grablin DIGEST: 1. An employee may be reimbursed the loan origination fee she incurred incident to purchasing a house on December 23, 1982, at her new duty station since, effective October 1, 1982, the Federal Travel Regulations, as amended, authorize reimbursement of such fees. Although previously the regulations did not authorize reimbursement of such fees, the amended regulation is not inconsistent with the authorizing statute, 5 U.S.C. S 5724a and is now authority to reimburse employees for loan origination fees. 2. Effective October 1, 1982, the Federal Travel Regulations authorize reimburse- ment of loan origination fees for a transferred employee purchasing a house. Such a fee, however, may be reimbursed only if bona fide and only to the extent the fee does not exceed amounts customarily paid in the locality of the residence. Furthermore, the total reim- bursable expense in connection with the purchase of a residence, including the loan origination fee, is subject to an overall limitation of 5 percent of the purchase price or $5,000, whichever is less. The question in this case is whether a transferred Federal employee, Ms. Patricia A. Grablin, may be reimbursed a $1,325 loan origination fee in connection with the purchase of a residence at her new duty station.1 We 1. This question was presented as a request for advance decision by the Comptroller, Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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