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B-236651.3 1 (1990-09-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnum0001 and id is 1 raw text is: r %, ,V, k, Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 2054 Decision Matter Of: Jean Jacobson - Relocation Expenses - Transfer Primarily for Employee's Benefit File: B-236651.3 Date: September 21, 1990 DIGEST A transferred employee's entitlement to relocation expenses is contingent upon, among other things, a determination that the transfer is not primarily for the convenience or benefit of the employee or at her request. Primary responsibility for such determination rests with the agency, and GAO will not disturb the agency's determination unless it is clearly erroneous, arbitrary or capricious. Neither the possible benefit to the agency of the transfer nor the assertion that the employee requested the payment of relocation expenses at the time of her transfer is sufficient in and of itself to overturn the agency's determination that the transfer was primarily for the employee's benefit. Jean Jacobson, B-236651, Feb. 12, 1990, affirmed. DECISION In this decision we reconsider the claim of Ms. Jean Jacobson, an employee of the Social Security Administration (SSA), for reimbursement of her relocation expenses incurred pursuant to her transfer from Omaha, Nebraska, to a part-time position in Grand Island, Nebraska, incident to a permanent change of station. That disallowance was based on the finding that the employee's relocation was primarily for her own convenience or benefit. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm our prior decision, Jean Jacobson, B-236651, Feb. 12, 1990, which denied the employee's claim for reimbursement of relocation expenses. In her request for reconsideration Ms. Jacobson asserts that she had requested the payment of relocation expenses at the time of her transfer, contrary to a statement in our earlier decision that she had not done so. Further, Ms. Jacobson contends that, although the transfer was beneficial to her, it was also beneficial to her agency as the agency was able to fill a vacancy with a trained productive employee. Additionally, Ms. Jacobson alleges that in a similar situa- tion which occurred in her geographic area about a year after

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