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-RDP58-00453R000300010038-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: May 25, 1951
• Content Type: MEMO

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Chief, Finance Division 25 May 1951
Office of General Counsel
Detinition of living-quarters and cost-of-living allowances in
agent contracts
It Pursuant to an oral request made at a meeting, ,af CFD
certifying officers, held 3 May 1951, the following is an in-
terpretation of the provision quoted below as applicabl,a to,
Contract Agents i
effective upon your arrival at your permanent post of
duty overseas. you will be entitled to living-quarters and
1 cost-of-living allowances in conformance with* and at the
maximum rates prescribed in,, the Standardized Government
Civilian Allowance Regulations. No accounting .a1 be
required for payments made under this paragraph."
of The Agent is authorized to receive a temporary quarters
allowance when claimed and appropriate facts are pr rented which
would make the Agent eligible for this allowance,
b, The Agent,, upon presentation of facts establishing his
eligibility, is entitled to macimum quarters allowance without furnish-
ing an accounting as to the cost of quarters.
a, The Agent, upon presentation of facts establishing his
eligibility, is entitled to any of the four allowances included in
the generic term "cost-of-living allowances" n "post allo nces,"
"special post allowances " transfer allowances?" and "separation al-
lowances*"
. The language "no accounting shall be required" should
n,bt be construed to relieve the Agent of filing a claim for any al-
T Vance and establishing hit eligibility to receive such allowance,
2. The term "quarters` allowance" used in aotte agents' contracts
to be cons trued as including ' only quarters allowance and not
orary lodging allowance."
3, The term. "living-quarters allowance" is to be construed as
including both "temporary lodginc allowance" and "quarters allowance,"
4. For the distinction between "post allowance" and 'host-of-living
allowance" reference should be made to 2,c, above.
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