41 CFR § 302-12.3 - Relocation services expenses an agency will pay.

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title: "41 CFR § 302-12.3 - Relocation services expenses an agency will pay."
title_number: 41
title_name: "Public Contracts and Property Management"
section_number: "302-12.3"
section_name: "Relocation services expenses an agency will pay."
chapter_number: 302
chapter_name: "RELOCATION ALLOWANCES"
subchapter_number: "E"
subchapter_name: "RESIDENCE TRANSACTION ALLOWANCES"
part_number: "302-12"
part_name: "12—USE OF A RELOCATION SERVICES COMPANY"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "5 U.S.C. 5738 and 20 U.S.C. 905(c)."
regulatory_source: "FTR Case 2025-05, 90 FR 56893, Dec. 8, 2025, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "302-12"
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# 302-12.3 Relocation services expenses an agency will pay.

(a) Agencies will pay the relocation services company's fees/expenses for the services employees are authorized to use. If an agency pays the relocation services company for actual expenses the company incurs on an employee's behalf, payment to the company is limited to what the employee would have received under the direct reimbursement provisions of this chapter.

(b) If an employee uses a relocation services company to sell or purchase a residence for which the employee and/or a member(s) of their immediate family do not have full title, the agency will pay the portion of the relocation services company's fee attributable to the employee's pro rata share of the residence, in accordance with § 302-11.100 of this subchapter. Employees must pay any portion of the fee attributable to other than the pro rata share of the residence.

(c) If an employee uses a contracted-for relocation service (*i.e.,* a relocation service provided and handled directly by an RSC) that is a substitute for a reimbursable relocation allowance, the employee will not also be reimbursed for that relocation allowance. Employees must choose either the service or reimbursement, but not both.