United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1995-11-13 monographic deposited born digital 4 p. GA 1.13:B-261836 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-261836 P0b002ee18fd48f2b f:261836 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-261836 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-261836 B-261836 Comptroller General Decision A Department of Defense (DOD) civilian employee listed his residence for sale in anticipation that the base at which he worked would be closed and went to settlement on the residence before registering with the agency's job placement program. The agency questions whether the employee may be reimbursed real estate expenses for the sale of his residence based on an agency regulation allowing reimbursement of real estate expenses for employees who are registered in the placement program. The employee may be reimbursed. Neither the regulation nor our decision in Kirk S. Peters, B-249451, Jan. 7, 1993, which is cited in the regulation, requires employees to be registered in the placement program to receive reimbursement for real estate expenses. Rather, employees may be reimbursed real estate expenses incurred after an agency has demonstrated a clear administrative intent to transfer the employee and the employee is transferred and signs an employment agreement. Although registration in the agency placement program is evidence of an intent to transfer, agencies may look to all the facts of a particular case to determine whether this intent existed. In this case, the employee was acting on information that the base was about to be closed and that an offer to assist him in finding another job would be forthcoming. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-261836/html/GAOREPORTS-B-261836.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-261836/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-261836.pdf GAO/B-261836 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-261836 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-261836; Terry W. Gravatt;