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Claim for Relocation Expenses

B-204939 Apr 05, 1982
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A Defense Logistics Agency employee was transferred to a new duty station. While on a house-hunting trip, he located an apartment and paid an advance payment and a month's rent that was required by the lease. In filing his voucher for reimbursement for relocation expenses, the claimant included the advance payment, the month's rent, a fuel surcharge, and additional transportation charges. GAO held that the transferred employee may not be reimbursed expenses incurred for an advance payment retained as a security deposit and for the first month's rent required by the lease on his residence at the new duty station since expenses attributable to the execution of the lease at the new duty station are not payable. Quarters occupied for an indefinite period are not considered temporary quarters for which reimbursement was allowable. An employee transferred to a new station is entitled to reimbursement for transportation of household effects at the commuted rate. However, the employee may not be reimbursed a fuel surcharge and an additional transportation charge he paid since, under the commuted-rate system, there is no provision for reimbursing an employee for actual costs in excess of the commuted rate. Accordingly, the claim was denied.

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