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[Request for Reconsideration of Disallowed Claim for Mileage Reimbursement]

B-210660 Dec 26, 1984
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A Navy employee requested reconsideration of a decision which disallowed his claim for mileage incident to travel between his home, from which he did not commute daily, and a duty station located about 160 miles away. In the prior decision, GAO held that travel to and from a remote residence is the responsibility of the employee. In his request for reconsideration, the employee claimed that travel regulations permit mileage reimbursement when an employee's use of a privately owned vehicle for official travel is advantageous to the government and contended that other employees have been paid mileage for local travel from residences distant from their duty stations. GAO has held that, for the purposes of mileage reimbursement to and from a residence, the term "residence" must refer to a place from which the employee commutes daily. In this case, the local temporary lodgings in the duty station area from which the employee commuted to work should be considered his residence for purposes of mileage reimbursement. Further, an agency's authority to provide mileage reimbursement for travel from distant residences is discretionary with the agency. In addition, GAO found that other employees of the agency who were being reimbursed mileage from their residences to alternate work sites did not travel as far as the claimant did. Accordingly, the prior decision was affirmed.

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