The U.S. Customs Service requested an advance decision regarding a transferred employee's claim for subsistence expenses his wife incurred incident to a 7-day house-hunting trip. Customs advised that it: (1) authorized temporary quarters subsistence expenses for the claimant and his immediate family for 120 days; (2) authorized a house-hunting trip; and (3) reduced the claimant's authorized 120-da...

Civilian Personnel - Relocation - Temporary Quarters - Actual Subsistence Expenses - Reimbursement - Amount Determination DIGEST: Transferred employee was authorized 120 days Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expenses (TQSE) and a househunting trip. Employee's reclaim for the 7 days of TQSE for himself and his children was properly denied. Since these are discretionary items and the agency interpreta...