An Immigration and Naturalization Service official requested an advance decision as to whether an employee on temporary duty should be reimbursed using the customary per diem rate plus the cost of the use of a rental car, or whether he should be reimbursed at a lower rate without an allowance for the rental car. The employee, an immigration judge, was assigned temporary duty in Puerto Rico to cond...

OR SHOULD HE BE REIMBURSED AT A LOWER SPECIAL PER DIEM RATE SET BY THE AGENCY AND EXCLUDING THE RENTAL CAR BECAUSE OF AVAILABLE GOVERNMENT QUARTERS THAT THE EMPLOYEE WAS DIRECTED TO USE AT THE TEMPORARY DUTY SITE? FN1 WE FIND THAT IN THIS CASE THE EMPLOYEE SHOULD BE REIMBURSED USING THE LOWER PER DIEM RATE SET BY THE AGENCY BECAUSE THE RATE WAS PROPERLY ESTABLISHED AND THE AGENCY HAS SHOWN THAT TH...