5 U.S.C. § 5924
Cost-of-living allowances
United States · Title 5 — GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES · Status: effective
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- 5 U.S.C. § 5924, Cost-of-living allowances, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/427144
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The following cost-of-living allowances may be granted, when applicable, to an employee in a foreign area:
A transfer allowance for extraordinary, necessary, and reasonable subsistence and other relocation expenses (including unavoidable lease penalties), not otherwise compensated for, incurred by an employee incident to establishing himself at a post of assignment in—
An education allowance or payment of travel costs to assist an employee with the extraordinary and necessary expenses, not otherwise compensated for, incurred because of his service in a foreign area or foreign areas in providing adequate education for his dependents (or, to the extent education away from post is involved, official assignment to service in such area or areas), as follows:
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Department of State Appropriations Authorization Act of 1973House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- State Department/USIA Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1975House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1976House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- International Development Cooperation Act of 1979House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1980 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, for the Intelligence Community Staff, and for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, to authorize supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1979 for the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Department of Justice Appropriation Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1980House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Foreign Service Act of 1980House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- A bill to revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws, related to money and finance, as title 31, United States Code, "Money and Finance".House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Federal Employees Benefits Improvement Act of 1986House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991
- Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993House: no recorded tallySenate: 86–11
- Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000
- Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003House: 352–73Senate: no recorded tally
- Department of State Authorities Act of 2006House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally