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B-226430 1 (1987-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmxw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Wahington, D.C. 20548 Decision Chief Yeoman Celestino Moreno, USN (Retired) - Matterof. Home of Selection in Philippines - Household Goods Transportation File: B-226430 Date: December 4, 1987 DIGEST A Navy member visited the Philippines 5 years after retirement from the Navy with the stated intention of personally residing there 3 years later, when he planned to resign from employment with the United States Postal Service in California. A few days after his arrival and receipt of his household goods shipped there at government expense, he sold his goods and he and his wife returned to their residence in the United States. The member's plan to have his wife begin residence in the Philippines did not entitle the member to have his household goods transported there as a shipment to his home of selection at government expense, since he did not establish residence there. DECISION Chief Yeoman Celestino Moreno, USN (Retired), appeals a determination of our Claims Group that he was not entitled to the transportation of his household goods to the Philip- pines, as his home of selection upon retirement, and that he is indebted to the United States for the cost of transporta- tion. We agree with the Claims Group's determinations. BACKGROUND Mr. Celestino Moreno retired from the Navy on March 31, 1976. He continued to reside with his wife in a personally- owned house in Hayward, California, which was also his home of record. Ordinarily a service member has I year from the date of his retirement to select his home upon retirement and initiate shipment of his household goods there. In this case, however, upon retirement Mr. Moreno apparently entered training and secured employment in September 1976 with the United States Postal Service in Newark, California. More than 5 years later, in October 1981, Mr. Moreno shipped his household goods at government expense to Olongapo City, the Philippines, on the basis that it was his home of selection upon retirement from the Navy. This was done, according to a statement he made to the Naval Investigative Service, in anticipation of establishing a permanent residence in the

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