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B-226005 1 (1988-02-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmzs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: pThe Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof- Patsy S. Ricard - Relocation Expenses File: B-226005 Date: February 29, 1988 DIGESTS 1. Transferred employee may disestablish residence at the old duty station even though the spouse did not disestab- lish residence there. Thus, the employee is entitled to temporary quarters subsistence expenses. However, the employee may not be reimbursed for the first 10-day period of lodging for which receipts are not available since regu- lations require receipts for lodging before reimbursement is allowed. Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) para. 2-5.4b. 2. Pursuant to a permanent change-of-station transfer, employee paid lessor of rented apartment one month's rent as required by terms of unexpired lease when employee terminates lease because of job transfer but is unable to give 30-day notice to lessor. Rent paid may not be reimbursed. An underlying premise upon which the lease termination expense benefit is grounded is that the leased quarters were actually vacated. This premise was unful- filled here because employee continued to occupy the apart- ment for part of the month and her husband continued to occupy the apartment during the entire month. In any event, FTR para. 2-6.2h, providing for reimbursement of lease termination expenses, requires employee to make reasonable efforts to sublet apartment. Where facts reveal that employee's spouse rented apartment immediately after employee terminated lease, employee fail :d to make reasonable efforts to sublet. 3. Where transferred employee's spouse failed to join employee at new duty station, the employee's claim for temporary quarters subsistence expense for spouse is denied since there is no evidence that the spouse vacated or intended to vacate the residence at the old station. 4. Transferred employee is not entitled to reimbursement of a rental deposit forfeited at new permanent duty station

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