DEFINITION OF LIVING-QUARTERS AND COST-OF-LIVING ALLOWANCES IN AGENT CONTRACTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP57-00384R000400190055-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: May 31, 1951
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chief, Finance Division 31 May 1951
Of flee of General Counsel
Definition of living-quarters and cost-o'-living allowances in
agent contracts.
3. uant to an oral request made at a meeting of CY D
certifying officers, hold 23 mar 1951, the followin< ', is an in-
terpretation of the provision quo*.ed `~eelow z alicable to
contract a r a nts.
wlyffective upon yot,.r arrival at your permanent poet
of duty overseas, you will be entitled to living-charters
and cost-of-living allowances in conformance with, and at the
neaxizsaun rates prescribed i:i, the Standardized Covernment
Civilian Allowance Regulations. No accounting shall be
required for payments made mar this r>ara firaph."
a. The agent is authorized to receive a temporary
quarters allowance when established and appropriate facts are
presented wiich would make the at-rent eligible for this allowance.
b. Upon presentation of facts -stablishAng eligibility,
agent is entitled to maxims quarters allowance without furnishing
an accounting as to the cost of quarters,
c. Upon presentation of facts establishing eligi.bil.ity,
agent in entitled to any of thr four allowances included in the
generic term "cost-of-living allowances" namely: "post allowances,"
"special port allowances." "transfer allowmmcses," and "separation
allowances." (See Sec. 1.5 of SGCAR).
d. The language "no accounting shall be required" should
not be construed to preclude presentation of facts establishing- eligibility
any allowance.
2. The term "quarters allowances" used in so*~e agents' contracts
is to be construed as including only qu?rtere allowance and not
"teR porary lodging allow nos."
3. The term "living-quarters allowance" is to be c ons trued as
including both "temporary lodging allowance" and "quarters allowance."
4. For the distinction txetwoen "post allowance" and "cost-of-
living allowance" reference should be made to l.c. above.
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