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B-222942 1 (1987-06-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmsd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: a The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof Transportation Allowances for Children Born After the Effective Date of Orders B-222942 Date: June !, 1987 DIGEST There has been recognized only a narrow exception to the general rule that only persons who are a uniformed service member's dependents on the effective date of his change-of- station order are entitled to transportation to the new station at government expense. This exception applies to children who are unborn on the effective date of the order where the mother's travel is delayed by service regulations prohibiting her travel due to her advanced pregnancy. Upon further consideration and in accordance with a broader exception authorized civilian employees, no objection is raised to a proposed amendment to the uniformed services regulations to include as a dependent, for transportation allowance purposes, infants born after the effective date of orders because their mothers' travel was delayed for any official reason. 50 Comp. Gen. 220 is modified accordingly. DECISION This is in response to a request from the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee for our opinion concerning a proposed amendment to the travel regulations applicable to members of the uniformed services. The amendment would broaden the definition of dependent for travel purposes to include an infant, unborn as of the effective date of a permanent change-of-station (PCS) order, whose mother's travel to the new duty station is delayed because of any official reason. The proposed change would make the uniformed services travel regulations similar in this regard to the civilian travel regulations. As is explained below, we do not object to the proposed amendment. BACKGROUND The statutory provision authorizing payment of the travel expenses to a new duty station of a uniformed service member's dependents is 37 U.S.C. S 406(a)(1) (Supp. IV 1985) which reads in part:

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