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§5724d Transportation and Moving Expenses for Immediate Family of Certain Deceased Federal Employees

Title 5 › PART III — EMPLOYEES › Subpart D — Pay and Allowances › CHAPTER 57 — TRAVEL, TRANSPORTATION, AND SUBSISTENCE › SUBCHAPTER II — TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES; NEW APPOINTEES, STUDENT TRAINEES, AND TRANSFERRED EMPLOYEES › § 5724d

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Under rules set by the President, the head of the agency can decide that a covered employee died from an injury while doing their job and can pay, from government funds, moving costs for the employee’s immediate family and the cost to prepare and send the body. The family’s new home must be different from where they lived when the employee died and must be inside the United States. The body can be sent to the family’s new home or another burial place the agency approves. No expenses can be paid here if they are already paid from government funds under section 5742 or any other authority. Covered employee means: a law enforcement officer (see section 5541), certain FBI employees, a customs and border protection officer (see section 8331(31)), or a nuclear materials courier (see section 8331(27)). Qualified moving expenses include travel for the family, moving and handling household goods (packing, crating, temporary storage, drayage, unpacking) up to 18,000 pounds net, and, if approved, transport of one privately owned vehicle.

Title 5, §5724d

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(a)In General.—

Under regulations prescribed by the President, the head of the agency concerned (or a designee) may determine that a covered employee died as a result of personal injury sustained while in the performance of the employee’s duty and authorize or approve the payment by the agency, from Government funds, of— (1)

(2)any expense of preparing and transporting the remains of the deceased to—

(A)the place where the immediate family will reside following the death of the employee; or

(B)such other place appropriate for interment as is determined by the agency head (or designee).

(b)No Duplicate Payment of Expenses.—

No expenses may be paid under this section if those expenses are paid from Government funds under section 5742 or any other authority.

(c)Definitions.—

For purposes of this section

(1)

(2)the term “qualified expense”, as used with respect to an immediate family changing its place of residence, means the transportation expenses of the immediate family, the expenses of moving (including transporting, packing, crating, temporarily storing, draying, and unpacking) the household goods and personal effects of such immediate family, not in excess of 18,000 pounds net weight, and, when authorized or approved by the agency head (or designee), the transportation of 1 privately owned motor vehicle.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

Subsec. (c)(1)(D). Pub. L. 116–283 added subpar. (D).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

No Relevance as to Compensation Claims Pub. L. 111–178, § 2(b), June 9, 2010, 124 Stat. 1263, provided that: “No determination made under section 5724d of title 5, United States Code, shall be deemed relevant to or be considered in connection with any claim for compensation under chapter 81 of that title or under any other law under which compensation may be provided on account of death or personal injury, nor shall any determination made with respect to any such claim be deemed relevant to or be considered in connection with any request for payment of expenses under such section 5724d.”

Executive Documents

Delegation Under section 2(a) of the Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act Memorandum of President of the United States, Sept. 12, 2011, 76 F.R. 57621, provided: Memorandum for the Administrator of General Services By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby delegate to you the function conferred upon the President by section 2(a) of the Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act (Public Law 111–178) to prescribe the applicable

Regulations

. You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register. Barack Obama.