[Claim for Meal Expenses]

GAO was asked to determine whether two Agency for International Development (AID) foreign service employees on temporary duty travel are entitled to reimbursement for individual meals for which receipts were not submitted. GAO held that, since Foreign Service Travel Regulations require receipts for each allowable cash expenditure in excess of a specified amount, unless it is not practicable to obtain them or the duties of the traveler were of a confidential nature, AID properly disallowed actual subsistence expense claim for individual meal costs in the absence of receipts. Accordingly, the agency's disallowance of their claims was sustained.