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B-215408 1 (1986-02-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmet0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THUd COMPTROLLER GENERAL OIClION . . OF THE UNITO STATES WAGHINGTON. 0. C. 2054 FILE: B-215408 OATE: February 26, 1986 MATTER OF: George L. Daves - Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expenses - Househunting Expenses DIGEST: 1. A transferred employee's immediate family joined him at his new duty station several months after he reported for duty, remained there for 26 days, and then returned to their residence at the old duty station. The employee's claim for family travel and temporary quarters subsistence expense is denied since the record does not provide any objective evidence that the family intended to vacate the residence at the old station so as to entitle the employee to be reimbursed. 2. A transferred employee may be deemed to have disestablished his residence at his old duty station effective the date he reported to his new duty station, even though his family did not disestablish their residence at the old station. Thus, under para- graph 2-5.2a of the Federal Travel Regulations (May 1973 ed.), he is entitled to TQSE for himself, not to exceed 30 days. 3. A transferred employee who was authorized a househunting trip, which he had not performed before he reported to duty, may be reim- bursed for travel expenses and 6 days per diem for his wife's subsequent househunting trip where the record indicates that she performed such duties prior to her return to the old duty station. This decision is in response to a request from the Director, Office of Comptroller, United States Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). It concerns the 60 /

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