§5729 Transportation Expenses; Prior Return of Family

Summary

Under rules made under section 5738, an agency must pay from its funds, no more than once before the employee returns to the United States, the cost to move the employee’s immediate family and to ship the employee’s household goods and personal effects from a post of duty outside the continental United States to the employee’s actual residence when the employee becomes eligible or when the public interest requires the family’s return for urgent humanitarian or compassionate reasons (for example, illness, death in the family, or obligations beyond the employee’s control). Under the same rules, an agency must reimburse an employee from its funds if the employee already paid to bring the immediate family and household goods to the United States for reasons other than public interest and later becomes eligible for those transportation costs. These rules do not apply to funds for the U.S. Foreign Service.