41 CFR § 302-16.2 - MEA payment amount and calculation methodology.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t41/s302-16.2"
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legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "41 CFR § 302-16.2 - MEA payment amount and calculation methodology."
title_number: 41
title_name: "Public Contracts and Property Management"
section_number: "302-16.2"
section_name: "MEA payment amount and calculation methodology."
chapter_number: 302
chapter_name: "RELOCATION ALLOWANCES"
subchapter_number: "F"
subchapter_name: "MISCELLANEOUS ALLOWANCES"
part_number: "302-16"
part_name: "16—ALLOWANCE FOR MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "5 U.S.C. 5738; 20 U.S.C. 905(a); E.O. 11609, 36 FR 13747, 3 CFR, 1971-1975 Comp., p. 586."
regulatory_source: "FTR Case 2025-05, 90 FR 56893, Dec. 8, 2025, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "302-16"
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# 302-16.2 MEA payment amount and calculation methodology.

The following amount will be paid for miscellaneous expenses:

(a) A lump sum amount set in an FTR bulletin without support or documentation of expenses; or

(b) An amount in excess of the lump sum amount if authorized by an agency; and

(1) The claim is supported by acceptable statements of fact, paid bills or other acceptable evidence (documentation) justifying the amounts claimed; and

(2) The aggregate amount does not exceed an employee's basic gross pay (at the time they reported for duty, at their new official station) for:

(i) One week if the employee is relocating without immediate family; or

(ii) Two weeks if the employee is relocating with immediate family.

(3) The amount authorized in paragraph (b)(2) of this section cannot exceed the maximum rate of grade GS-13, Step 10 General Schedule (base) salary (excluding locality pay) (see 5 U.S.C. 5332) at the time the employee reported for duty at their new official station.

GSA publishes the lump sum amounts in an FTR bulletin on an intermittent basis at *https://gsa.gov/ftrbulletins.*