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B-221978 1 (1986-04-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmgf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ,. UTHE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION OF THE UNITED UTATES 4RWASHINGTON. 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-221978 DATE: April 2, 1986 MATTER OF: Meryl Bullard - Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expenses DIGEST: 1. Reimbursement of temporary quarters subsistence expenses of transferred employee is limited to the 30 days authorized by the agency where the employee failed to obtain authorization to spend 90 additional days in tempo- rary quarters and the agency did not approve the additional time by adminis- trative action. 2. Transferred employee may not be paid temporary quarters subsistence expenses on the basis that she was erroneously advised that she did not have to request an extension until she submit- ted her final travel voucher for pay- ment. Mr. Conrad R. Hoffman, Director, Office of Budget and Finance at the Veterans Administration, requests that we settle a reclaim submitted by Ms. Meryl Bullard in the amount of $1,667 for subsistence expenses she incurred while occupying temporary quarters incident to a transfer from the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa, to the Veterans Administration Central Office in Washington, D.C. Ms. Bullard requests reimbursement for the living expenses she incurred over a 120-day period beginning May 22, 1984, while housesitting at a residence in the Washington, D.C., area. The VA allowed the claim for subsistence expenses for 30 days, but denied the claim for the remaining 90 days because Ms. Bullard had failed to request an extension beyond the 30 days the agency author- ized for temporary quarters. Ms. Bullard claims that during that 30-day period she asked the VA's Office of Academic Affairs travel coordina- tor about authorization for 90 additional days stay in temporary quarters. She allegedly was informed that she did not need to request an extension until she submitted

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