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092692 1 (1969-08-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacwog0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GE2Pr/L ACOrUjTvIN OFIcE - /INTE-PHAT~INAL DIVISION' FAR EAST BRANCH ln3 KALAKAUA AVENUE AUG 2 1 1988 Honorable Edward E. Johnston U.S. High Commissioner Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Saipan, Mariana Islands 96950 Dear Mr. Johnston: We have completed a review of education allowance grants made to Trust Territory Government employees. Our review disclosed that weaknesses existed in the administration of these education allowance grants which may have resulted in unnecessary expense to the Trust Territory Government. We examined the applicable policies governing the education allowance grant and reviewed the practices and procedures followed in administering the grants. Trust Territory Government policy is to follow the Standardized Regulations (Government Civilians, Foreign Areas), issued by the Secretary of State, which prescribes the payment of differentials and other allowances to eligible Government civilians serving in foreign areas. The education allowance is designed to assist an employee in meeting the extraordinary and necessary expenses, not other- wise compensated for, incurred by reason of his service in a foreign area in providing adequate elementary and secondary education, ordinarily provided without charge by the public schools in the United States, for his children. In those cases where adequate schools are not available at the employee's post, the costs of room and board and periodic transportation between such posts and the locality where the least expensive, adequate school is available are provided for. It has been determined that no adequate schools are available in the Trust Territory and maximum rates of $150 per year for schools at post and $2,200 per year for schools away from post, per child, have been made available to eligible Trust Territory employees. Our review was primarily concerned with education allowances granted for study at schools outside of the Trust Territory. In this connection, we noted that the regulations state that an 4 I

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