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PUBLIC LAW 89-554-SEPT. 6, 1966

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(5) "missing status" means the status of an employee who is in active service and is officially carried or determined to be absent in a status of— (A) missing; (B) missing in action; (C) interned in a foreign country; (D) captured, beleaguered, or besieged by a hostile force; or (E) detained in a foreign country against his will; but does not include the status of an employee for a period during which he is officially determined to be absent from his post of duty without authority; and (6) "pay and allowances" means— (A) basic pay; (B) special pay; (C) incentive pay; (D) basic allowance for quarters; (E) basic allowance for subsistence; and (F) station per diem allowances for not more than 90 days. §5562. Pay and allowances; continuance while in a missing status; limitations (a) An employee in a missing status is entitled to receive or have credited to his account, for the period he is in that status, the same pay and allowances to which he was entitled at the beginning of that period or may become entitled thereafter. (b) Entitlement to pay and allowances under subsection (a) of this section ends on the date of— (1) receipt by the head of the agency concerned of evidence that the employee is dead; or (2) death prescribed or determined under section 5565 of this title. That entitlement does not end— (A) on the expiration of the term of service or employment of an employee while he is in a missing status; or (B) earlier than the dates prescribed in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection if the employee dies while he is in a missing status. (c) A n employee who is officially determined to be absent from his post of duty without authority is indebted to the United States for payments of amounts credited to his account under subsection (a) of this section for the period of that absence. (d) When an employee in a missing status is continued in that status under section 5565 of this title, he continues to be entitled to have pay and allowances credited under subsection (a) of this section. §5563. Allotments; continuance, suspension, initiation, resumption, or increase while in a missing status; limitations (a) An allotment (including one for the purchase of United States savings bonds) made by an employee before he was in a missing status may be continued for the period he is in that status, notwithstanding the end of the period for which the allotment was made. (b) I n the absence of an allotment or when an allotment is insufficient for a purpose authorized by the head of the agency concerned, he or his designee may authorize such a new or increased allotment as circumstances warrant, which is payable for the period the employee concerned is in a missing status.

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