Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expenses

The claimant requested reconsideration of a decision concerning the reasonableness of his expenditures for subsistence while occupying temporary quarters incident to a change of permanent duty station. Reimbursement was limited by the decision to Department of Labor statistics for a family of four persons. Since the oldest child was older than those used in the statistics, the maximum allowable subsistence amount could be adjusted upward in accordance with Bureau of Labor Statistics equivalence scales.