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Claim for Reimbursement of Real Estate Expenses

B-195929 May 27, 1980
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An employee appealed the disallowance of his claim for reimbursement of real estate expenses incurred incident to his change of permanent duty station. The travel order entitled the employee to reimbursement of allowable expenses incurred in selling his residence at his old official station. The record showed that the title to the residence was listed in the names of the employee and his former wife. Regulations provide that real estate expenses may be reimbursed provided that the title to the residence is in the name of the employee alone, or in the joint names of the employee and one or more members of his immediate family, or solely in the name of one or more members of his immediate family. Immediate family is defined as a spouse, certain children, or dependent parents of the employee or of the employee's spouse. It has been held that an employee in these circumstances may be reimbursed his expenses to the extent of his interest in the name of the employee alone, or in the joint names of the employee and 50 percent. Accordingly, the disallowance of the claim was sustained.

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