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B-222136 1 (1986-09-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmlu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof- Allan L. Franklin - Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expenses File: B-222136 Date: September 19, 1986 DIGEST A transferred employee claims temporary quarters subsistence expenses associated with his occupancy of a furnished one- bedroom condominium he had purchased. The employee's claim may be allowed because the record shows that the employee intended to occupy the condominium on only a temporary basis pending his purchase of a suitable family residence. Specifically, the temporary character of the employee's occupancy of the condominium is evidenced by the fact that the one-bedroom unit would not accommodate his six-person family and by the fact that he kept his household goods in storage while residing there. DECISION Mr. Allan L. Franklin, an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has appealed our Claims Group's settle- ment denying him temporary quarters subsistence expenses for a period during which he occupied a condominium he had pur- chased. 1/ We reverse our Claims Group settlement and hold that Mr. Franklin may receive temporary quarters sub- sistence expenses because, as explained below, we find that he intended to occupy the condominium for only a temporary period. BACKGROUND In November 1981, Mr. Franklin was notified that he would be transferred from Hackensack, New Jersey, to Miami, Florida, effective January 29, 1982. Shortly after he received the transfer notice, Mr. Franklin put his house in New Jersey 1/ Mr. Franklin's appeal was forwarded to us by Mr. John H. Skaggs, an authorized certifying officer of the FBI. 0 -( i I : )) CO-

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