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B-188979 1 (1978-07-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgeu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: OCCICION FILE: 3-188979 .3 ,-.** n-la ? # THR COMPVTROL.LWR GENERA .I TNEm UNITED SeTATRS WVAS AINGTON. .C. 2O48 CIATE: July 242 1978 MATTER OF: Hiroshi Ichiki - Separate maintenance allowance DIGEST: A civilian employee of the Departmrnt of the Army stationed overseas may be granted a separate maintenance allowance since it has been esablished by the chief medical officer and the commander of the Eighth Army that the etployee is compelled tc main- tain his dependent elsewhere than at his post because of the lack of medical or hospi- tal facilities in the area to provide adequate treatment required for the illness of his dependent. This action is in response to a letter from the National Federation of Federal Employees on behalf of Mr. Hi oshi Ichiki, a civilian employee of the Department of the Army, c'acerning his claim for puyment of a separate maintenance allohance (SIA). Specifically we have been asked for the proper interpretation of the provision in the Department of State's Standardized Regulations (Gov- ernment Civilians, Foreign Areas) for the granting of an SMA due to the lack of appropriate medical or hospital facilities for dependents in the area. The administrative report supplied by the Army in the ease of Mr. Tchiki indicates that he was initially granted an SKA on Decem- bar 15, 1970, when he arrived in Korsa because his dependent was precluded from joining him. He wts subsequantly assigned to Bupyong, Seoul, and Chanchor. where his dependent was also precluded from joining him. On September 30, 1973, he was pronoted to a position at Pusan, Koreso, where dependents were authorized as of January 7, 1974. Due t. an administrative oversight, he was not officially advised until April 14, 1976, that he was eligible for a 24-month tour of duty at Pusan, Korea. He war also advised that since he was authorized a 24-month accompanied tour, his SMA would be terminated not later than 90 days from th- date of receipt of the notice of eligibility for an accompanied tour or the date depend- ents arrive at the duty post, whichever is earlier. Thr position of the Army in denying the SMA after July 19, 1976, is based upan the rationale that an overseas tour by L I j

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