B-256576: Jan 17, 1996

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) requested a decision concerning two employees' claims for temporary quarters subsistence expenses (TQSE) incident to their transfer to a new duty station. GAO held that VA could: (1) reimburse the employees for certain fees that are reasonably related to normal TQSE expenses; and (2) not reimburse one of the employee's for a telephone installation fee, since...

B-256576: Jan 17, 1996

Agency's determination that various charges incident to occupancy of temporary quarters are allowable is not arbitrary. Are overruled to the extent they are inconsistent with this decision. Fears are employees of the VA who were transferred to the VA Medical Center in Phoenix. Each was authorized subsistence expenses while occupying temporary quarters and each received extensions not to exceed 120...