Do newly assigned employees/eligible family members (EFMs) not yet arrived at the post qualify for evacuation benefits under DSSR Chapter 600?
Under the evacuation benefits law, only employees and dependents who are temporarily away from their foreign post of assignment at the time of the evacuation order are eligible for evacuation benefits if prohibited from returning. However, under the transfer allowance authority, DSSR 245 does allow equivalent benefits to certain newly assigned personnel who are prohibited from proceeding to post. These equivalent benefits provide for SEA payments as well as justified grace periods needed to return to post at the end of an evacuation, and the lease penalty payment. To qualify for these equivalent benefits the following three criteria must be met on the date of the ordered/authorized departure: (1) the employees transfer orders had been issued; (2) on the date of the ordered/authorized departure order the employee must have been within 60 days of scheduled departure to the new post; and (3) either (a) the employees HHE had already been packed out and the employees residence had been vaca
Related Questions
- Do newly assigned employees/eligible family members (EFMs) not yet arrived at the post qualify for evacuation benefits under DSSR Chapter 600?
- May previously evacuated eligible family members (EFMs) join the employee at his or her official safehaven?
- If the eligible member is deceased, do surviving family members qualify for payment?
