B-257861: Feb 15, 1995

A Social Security Administration (SSA) employee requested a change in his residency designation when he was assigned overseas, contending that SSA erred in designating the location of his last assignment as his place of residence, rather than his actual residence in another state. GAO held that SSA properly: (1) used the location of the employee's previous SSA assignment as his residence, since he...

B-257861: Feb 15, 1995

An employee who had previously resided in California traveled to Hawaii at his own expense where he was hired locally by an agency to a position for which a transportation agreement was not offered by the agency. Fourteen years later he sought to have the agency redesignate California as his residence at the time of his transfer. The designation of an employee's actual place of residence is a matt...