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B-218513 1 (1986-02-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmfa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: - -.1 C *,~ tq r C..K THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OUCISION r.l'. oP THE UNITED STATES WAS8H INGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: B-218513 DATE: February 28, 1986 MATTER OF: Travis D. Jackson DIGEST: Since the change of permanent duty station increased the employee's commuting dis- tance from his old residence by only 28 miles, there is no entitlement to tem- porary quarters expenses requiring under travel regulations an increase greater t'ian 40 miles. The employee was paid a travel advance predicated in part upon unauthorized temporary quarters expenses. Such a travel advance is considered a loan to the employee and must be paid back to the Government unless it is offset by allowable travel expenses. Mr. Travis D. Jackson, an employee of the Farmers Home Administration, Department of Agriculture, is not entitled to reimbursement of temporary quarters subsistence expenses in connection with his transfer between duty stations in 19a4 because the distance involved in his move was not sufficient to qualify.i/ Mr. Jackson's permanent duty station was changed from Galax, Virginia, to Wytheville, Virginia, in April 1984. Although he was authorized temporary quarters subsistence expenses, his move did not comply with the regulatory requirement that the change of station must increase the commuting distance from the employee's old residence to the new permanent duty station by more than 40 miles over the distance between the old residence and the old duty station. With one exception not relevant to the present case, the regulation expressly provides that there is no I/ Mr. W. D. Moorman, Authorized Certifying Officer, Department of Agriculture, requested our decision.

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