Because of the widespread damage from Katrina, agencies are allowed to decide where to use the waivers. Traditionally, GSA has limited such waivers to presidentially declared disaster areas. Federal ...

The General Services Administration this year is revising its approach for calculating federal per diem lodging rates in an attempt to better reflect more current and comprehensive travel data.

The General Services Administration announced 2002 per diem rates on Friday. The new rates for business trips by federal employees take effect Oct. 1 and can be downloaded from GSA's Web site. This ...

The Governmentwide Travel Advisory Committee at its first meeting last week agreed to make a handful of preliminary recommendations to the U.S. General Services Administration about per diem lodging ...

The General Services Administration has printed its final per diem bulletin for 2006 for government travelers. Per diems for eight metro areas were adjusted including New York, where the per-day rate ...