B-270403: Sep 11, 1996

The Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) requested a decision on the propriety of certain local travel reimbursement payments to employees for travel between their residences and local work sites that were not the employees' official duty stations. GAO held that: (1) Congress gave Inspectors General independent discretionary authority over local travel reimburseme...

B-270403: Sep 11, 1996

GAO concludes that OIG is "employing agency" for purposes of exercising administrative discretion over local travel reimbursement. Mileage payments made to OIG employees under its policy were proper payments and need not be collected back. Has requested our decision on whether certain local travel reimbursement payments were proper. We conclude that the payments were proper. OIG appropriations hav...