B-254837.2: Jan 16, 1996

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) requested reconsideration of a Food Safety and Inspection Service employee's claim for travel expenses incident to her transfer to her new duty station. GAO had held that the employee was entitled to reimbursement for travel expenses incurred on a subsequent trip to bring her children to her new duty station by her privately-owned vehicle. In its request for re...

B-254837.2: Jan 16, 1996

An employee was authorized travel for herself and her two young children to her new duty station by her privately owned vehicle at the rate applicable to an employee and two dependents. She is entitled to be reimbursed on a constructive basis at 4 cents per mile (the difference between the single rate and the rate she would have received if the dependents had accompanied her initially) for the tri...