22 CFR § 17.6 - Ordinary and necessary living expenses.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t22/s17.6"
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title: "22 CFR § 17.6 - Ordinary and necessary living expenses."
title_number: 22
title_name: "Foreign Relations"
section_number: "17.6"
section_name: "Ordinary and necessary living expenses."
chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF STATE"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "PERSONNEL"
part_number: "17"
part_name: "OVERPAYMENTS FROM THE FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND UNDER THE FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY SYSTEM (FSRDS) AND THE FOREIGN SERVICE PENSION SYSTEM (FSPS)"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "22 U.S.C. 4047(d); 22 U.S.C. 4071(b); 5 U.S.C. 8470(b); 5 CFR 845.301-07."
regulatory_source: "71 FR 16229, Mar. 31, 2006, unless otherwise noted."
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# 17.6 Ordinary and necessary living expenses.

An individual's ordinary and necessary living expenses include rent, mortgage payments, utilities, maintenance, food, clothing, insurance (life, health and accident), taxes, installment payments, medical expenses, support expenses when the individual is legally responsible, and other miscellaneous expenses which the individual can establish as being ordinary and necessary.