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B-187198 1 (1978-02-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtcy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 B-187198 The Honorable Jay Solomon Administrator, General Services Administration Dear Mr. Solomon: Because of your responsibility over Federal travel matters, we suggest that you consider recommending legislation to allow Federal agencies to pay the emergency travel expenses of employees who are required to return from travel assignments because of death or serious medical emergency in the immediate family. At the present time, an officer or employee of the Government, who sustains the loss of a family member and is compelled therefor to abandon a temporary duty assignment away from home, must person- ally assume the travel expenses of returning home. Similarly, the same burden exists when a family member of a Government employee becomes seriously ill or injured. This has resulted in inequities and in some instances extreme financial hardship for Government officers and employees. Section 5702(a)of title 5, United States Code (1976), provides as follows: (a) Under regulations prescribed under section 5707 of this title, an employee while traveling on official business away from his designated post of duty * * * is entitled to (1) a per diem allowance for travel inside the continental United States at a rate not to exceed $35 * * *. The language of the statute, iwhile traveling on official business, has required the prohibition of an allowance for per diem in lieu of subsistence to an employee and of the cost of transportation back to the employee's permanent duty station for funeral services or other personal emergencies since such travel is considered to be of a personal nature. See 47 Comp. Gen. 59 r (1967); 45 id. 29f( L965); 32 id. 57r /(l953); 23 id. 237f(1943); and similar decisions. Prior to the act of April 2 # 1950, ch. 108, 624 tat. 89 (now codified at 5 U.S.C. B 5702(b)),fthere was likewise no provision 1.00 February 28, 1978 ljt- /-

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