Entitlement to Subsistence While Occupying Temporary Quarters

An advance decision was requested as to whether a transferred employee had vacated his former residence as required for entitlement to reimbursement of subsistence expenses at temporary quarters. After transferring from Washington, D.C. to Madison, West Virginia, and moving into temporary quarters in Madison, he occasionally visited a house the family owned in Summersville, West Virginia. The employee was entitled to payment for temporary quarters since he had vacated the quarters in which he was residing at the time of transfer, a rented apartment in the D.C. area, and he did not indicate any intent to leave the area prior to his notification of transfer.