§ 302-1.14 - Use of funds.

(a) Advance of funds—(1) Basis. An employee may be advanced funds for use while traveling and for certain expenses which he/she may incur incident to a transfer based on his/her prospective entitlement to reimbursement for those expenses after they are incurred.

(2) Rules. Advances and collection of advances by deduction from the employee's voucher are subject to chapter 301 of this title.

(3) Anticipated entitlements which may justify an advance. The expected entitlement of an employee to reimbursement for the following expenses will form the basis for payment of a travel advance. Specific authority with regard to each type of expense is contained in the sections governing the particular allowances.

(i) Per diem, mileage, and common carrier costs incident to his/her change of official station travel as set forth in § 302-2.4;

(ii) Authorized househunting trips as set forth in § 302-4.16 of this chapter;

(iii) Subsistence while occupying temporary quarters as set forth in § 302-5.15 of this chapter;

(iv) Transportation and temporary storage of household goods as set forth in § 302-8.6;

(v) Transportation of mobile homes as set forth in § 302-7.5; and

(vi) Transportation and emergency storage of employee's privately owned vehicle as set forth in § 302-10.11 of this chapter.

(b) Funding of transfers between agencies. In the case of transfer from one agency to another, allowable expenses shall be paid from the funds of the agency to which the employee is transferred. However, in transfers between agencies for reasons of reduction-in-force or transfer of functions, expenses allowable under this chapter may be paid in whole or in part by the agency from which the employee is transferred or by the agency to which he/she is transferred as may be agreed upon by the heads of the agencies concerned except as excluded in paragraphs (b) (1) and (2) of this section.

(1) Nontemporary storage when assigned to an isolated permanent duty station within the continental United States; and

(2) Transfers to, from, or between foreign countries (except the areas and installations in the Republic of Panama made available to the United States under the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 and related agreements (as described in section 3(a) of the Panama Canal Act of 1979)).