Travel and Per Diem Allowances for Consultant

A former consultant requested reconsideration of the disallowance of his claim for travel expenses for the period of his employment in excess of 130 days of work in the service year. A person employed as a consultant becomes a temporary rather than an intermittent employee upon completion of 130 days of work in a service year and thereupon ceases to be entitled to per diem allowances or allowances for travel between his home and the place of performance of his consulting duties. The claim was properly disallowed even though the employing agency may have informed the employee otherwise since the government is not responsible for the unauthorized acts of its employees.