This amendment will save the Government money by easing the processing of relocation claims and will increase employee satisfaction with the relocation process. This amendment provides agencies the alternative to reimburse employees a fixed amount without requiring receipts for househunting trip subsistence expenses instead of paying a per diem allowance under the lodgings-plus reimbursement method. If offered the fixed amount option, you will have the discretion to choose between it and the lodgings-plus reimbursement method. Use of this common vernacular term simply makes the FTR easier to read and to understand.
Questions are in the first person, and answers are in the second person.
A question and its answer combine to establish a rule. The employee and the agency must follow the language contained in both the question and its answer. GSA has determined that this rule is not a significant regulatory action for the purposes of Executive Order 12866 of September 30, 1993. This final rule is not required to be published in the Federal Register for notice and comment. Therefore, the Regulatory Flexibility Act does not apply.