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Payments to Immediate Family for Packing Household Goods

B-183951 Feb 09, 1976
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An authorized certifying officer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Department of the Interior, requested GAO's decision as to whether he may certify for payment the voucher of Sherman A. Lynch, Jr., an employee of BIA, for reimbursement of amounts paid by him for packing his household goods incident to his transfer within Alaska from Mekoryuk to Alakanuk during 1974. Because of the remote location of his old and new duty stations and the lack of suitable labor at either station, Mr. Lynch paid his two daughters and another women to pack and unpack his household goods. GAO found that an employee may not be reimbursed for his own labor, and the same principle is applicable to members of the employee's immediate family. Accordingly, Mr. Lynch is not entitled to reimbursement for payments made to his daughters, but the payment to the other woman may be reimbursed.

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