What other allowances are available once TSMA terminates and the post is declared unaccompanied?
If the employee has EFM students in grades K through 12 then the employee may request either involuntary SMA or the applicable away from post education allowance. The applicable away from post education allowance is that specified for the employees post of assignment, per DSSR 276.23. The away from post education allowance option may be chosen unless child is going to school in the U.S. and the parent (natural, adoptive, or step) resides in the U.S. also (rare exceptions noted at DSSR 276.3). If this is the case, the employee is not eligible for the away from post education allowance. The logic is that the child could live with the parent and attend public school free of charge. This same prohibition does not apply if the child is going to school in a foreign country and the parent resides in the same foreign country because school wouldn’t be free in the foreign country as in the U.S. The only restriction on the “away from post” education allowance when a child is going to school in a
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