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B-215586 1 (1984-11-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmae0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0R THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL T OECISION .j OF THE UNITEO STATES ae WA SHINGTON, 0. C. 20549 FILE: B-215586 OATE: November 14, 1984 MATTER OF: Philip Rabin DIGEST: An employee stationed at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, returning from a tempo- rary duty assignment obtained a meal and rented a motel room near his residence when a snowstorm and icy roads prevented him from continuing to his home. The claim for reimbursement must be denied since an employee may not receive per diem or subsistence in the area of his place of abode or his official duty station, regardless of unusual circum- stances. An employee claims expenses incurred for dinner and lodging at a location near his residence when a snowstorm interrupted his travel to his home following a temporary duty assignment.1/ The employee may not be reimbursed for the meal or lodgings because he was in the city of his residence when these expenses were incurred. Mr. Philip Rabin, an employee of the Department of Defense employed at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, was assigned to temporary duty in Camden, New Jersey. He returned by train to Baltimore, Maryland, at approximately 6:40 p.m. on March 8, 1984, and proceeded by automobile toward his home in a snowstorm. Finding the main road very difficult to travel due to the intensity of the storm and secondary roads covered by snow and ice, he determined that it would be impossible to continue to his home. At 7:30 p.m. he stopped at a motel, ordered dinner and regis- tered. After learning at 11 p.m. that roads were passable, he checked out of the motel and proceeded to his home. Mr. Rabin filed a claim in the amount of $7.50 for the dinner meal and for $86.58 for lodging expense which claim was denied on grounds that the meal was consumed by him near his residence at or near his official duty station and that he did not spend the night in the motel. Mr. Rabin contends 1/ Mr. Kenneth F. Chute, Finance and Accounting Officer, National Security Agency, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, submitted this request for a decision. r3o5

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