You are eligible to receive an allowance for expenses incurred in connection with your residence transactions under this subpart if you have signed a service agreement as specified in § 302-3, subpart D of this chapter, and you are performing a permanent change of station where:
(a)
Your old and new official stations are within the United States; or
(b)
You transferred from an official station in the United States to a foreign area, and you are now transferring back to the United States and;
(1)
You have completed your service agreement time period for your overseas tour of duty; and
(2)
You are assigned to an official station in the United States that is more than 50 miles from your last official station in the United States, unless authorized otherwise in accordance with § 302-2.6 of this chapter.
Code of Federal Regulations
§ 302-11.2
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Code of Federal Regulations
Effective Date Note:
By FTR Amdt. 2011-01, 76 FR 18343, Apr. 1, 2011, § 302-11.2 was revised, effective Aug. 1, 2011. For the convenience of the user, the revised text is set forth as follows:
§ 302-11.2
Am I eligible to receive an allowance for expenses incurred in connection with my residence transactions?
(a) You must meet four basic conditions to be eligible to receive an allowance for expenses incurred in connection with your residence transactions:
(1) You must be transferring from one official station to another;
(2) Your relocation must be incidental to the transfer (i.e., not for the convenience of the employee);
(3) Your relocation must meet the distance test conditions of § 302-2.6
; and
(4) Your new official station must be within the United States.
(b) If you previously transferred from an official station in the United States to a foreign area and you are now transferring back to the United States, then, in addition to the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section, you must have completed the time period specified in your service agreement for your overseas tour of duty.
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