EDUCATIONAL ALLOWANCES FOR MINOR DEPENDENTS OF AGENCY PERSONNEL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04718A002800040009-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2002
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EDUCATIONAL ALLOWANCES FOR MINOR DEPENDENTS OF AGENCY PERSONNEL
What legislation, if any, should be sought by the Agency concerning
allowances to officers and employees for the education of their minor
dependents while at permanent stations outside the continental United
States?
2. FACTS BEARING ON THE PROBLEM!
a. The Agency does not now have either a formal policy or con-
sistent practice concerning educational allowances for school-age dependents
of its personnel stationed in foreign countries or in United States
possessions and territories,
b. Legal opinion states that there is no uniform or specific
authority within the Agency to expend money for such educational allowances.
o. Post differential payments made to employees of this Agency are
based on a variety of hardship-factors and paid as a percentage of the
employee's salary without regard to existence or number of dependents,
d. Educational facilities for school-age dependents in various
locations, particularly in foreign countries, are frequently unsuitable,
inferior, excessively expensive, or non-existent,
e. The military services have authority to pay tuition costs for
dependents of their military personnel and civilian employees at foreign
military posts.
f. Other governmental agencies, including the Department of State,
do not have authority to pay allowances for education of dependents of
their employees overseas.
g. The Bureau of the Budget has sponsored a com?nittee, including
representatives of State, FOA, Defense and CSC, to draft an "Overseas
Civilian Service Act" to consolidate and revise the laws relating to over-
seas and territorial civilian employees. A sixth draft provides in
pertinent parts
"(!a.) An education allowance or grant as follows:
(1) An allowance to assist an employee
(a) to provide for the elementary and secondary
education of his minor dependents, including
costs of tuition, board and room, corre-
spondence courses and related costs;
(b) to transport his minor dependents,, whenever
adequate elementary and secondary educational
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facilities are not available at the post at
which he is serving, to and from the nearest
locality where such facilities are available."
3. DISCUSSION
a. The concept of Career Service in the Agency contemplates
that employees serve, when and where required, in the best interests of the
Agency. It is inevitable that many employees with minor dependents will
be required to serve in localities without adequate elementary and secondary
educational facilities while accompanied by such dependents.
b,; It is therefore considered that an allowance for elementary
and secondary level education of minor dependents of such employees is a
legitimate goal for this Agency.
c. Legislative precedent for such allowances exists with reference
to the military services*
d. It is desirable that legislation permit such allowances to be
authorized, in the discretion of the DCI, in United States possessions and
territories as well as in foreign countries,
So One vehicle for the establishment of adequate authority is the
draft legislation sponsored by the Bureau of the Budget to equalize, by
payment of an allowance, the costs of education of minor dependents overseas.
4. CONCLUSIONS
a. Payment to officers and employees of an allowance for elementary
and secondary level education of minor dependents in their company while
serving in localities without adequate educational facilities or where the
costs of such facilities are excessive would serve to encourage career
service.
b. Legislative authority in addition to that now extended to the
Agency is necessary before such allowances may be paid,
co The purpose of such allowances should be to assist officers and
employees to provide for elementary and secondary education of minor
dependents, but not to pay all costs directly and indirectly connected
with such education*
d. Factors which should be considered in computing such allowances
(1) A curriculum generally equivalent to that available in the
public schools of Washington, D. C.;
(2) The amount of tuition and fees charged for minor dependents
attending the public schools of Washington, D. Co.;
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(3) Tuition,-board, and room, correspondence courses and
related costs; and,
(4) Transportation to and from the nearest locality where
generally equivalent curriculum is available.
e. The legislation should authorize allowances, as required, for
personnel stationed in foreign countries and in United States possessions
and territories.
f. The legislation should cover all Agency personnel in order that
the Director of Central Intelligence could authorize educational allowances
in extraordinary circumstances for foreign nationals who are not indigenous
to the area of employment,
g. The Agency should seek legislation on this subject in the
following order:
(1) Secure the required specific authority in an Agency legis-
lative program designed to further career service in the field of
national intelligence;
(2) In the event the Agency should not advance a legislative
program, then support legislation advanced by the Bureau of the
Budget for general application to governmental agencies and obtain
extension of such legislation to this Agency; or,
(3) If neither of the above is feasible during the next session
of the present Congress, then budget specifically for such allowances
in the next Agency appropriation bill, thus seeking to establish
annual legislative precedent and authority for such allowances.
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