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[CITE: 5USC5563]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                      Subpart D--Pay and Allowances
 
                     CHAPTER 55--PAY ADMINISTRATION
 
              SUBCHAPTER VII--PAYMENTS TO MISSING EMPLOYEES
 
Sec. 5563. Allotments; continuance, suspension, initiation, 
        resumption, or increase while in a missing status; limitations
        
    (a) An allotment (including one for the purchase of United States 
savings bonds) made by an employee before he was in a missing status may 
be continued for the period he is in that status, notwithstanding the 
end of the period for which the allotment was made.
    (b) In the absence of an allotment or when an allotment is 
insufficient for a purpose authorized by the head of the agency 
concerned, he or his designee may authorize such a new or increased 
allotment as circumstances warrant, which is payable for the period the 
employee concerned is in a missing status.
    (c) All allotments from the pay and allowances of an employee in a 
missing status may not total more than the amount of pay and allowances 
he is permitted to allot under regulations prescribed by the head of the 
agency concerned.
    (d) A premium paid by the United States on insurance issued on the 
life of an employee, which is unearned because it covers a period after 
his death, reverts to the appropriation of the agency concerned.
    (e) Subject to subsections (f) and (g) of this section, the head of 
the agency concerned or his designee may direct the initiation, 
continuance, discontinuance, increase, decrease, suspension, or 
resumption of an allotment from the pay and allowances of an employee in 
a missing status when that action is in the interests of the employee, 
his dependents, or the United States.
    (f) When the head of the agency concerned officially reports that an 
employee in a missing status is alive, an allotment under subsections 
(a)-(d) of this section may be paid, subject to section 5562 of this 
title, until the date the head of the agency concerned receives evidence 
that the employee is dead or has returned to the controllable 
jurisdiction of the agency concerned.
    (g) When an employee in a missing status is continued in that status 
under section 5565 of this title, an allotment under subsections (a)-(d) 
of this section may be continued, increased, or initiated.
    (h) When the head of the agency concerned considers it essential for 
the well-being and protection of the dependents of an employee in active 
service (other than an employee in a missing status), he may, with or 
without the consent of the employee and subject to termination on 
specific request of the employee--
        (1) direct the payment of a new allotment from the pay of the 
    employee;
        (2) increase or decrease the amount of an allotment made by the 
    employee; and
        (3) continue payment of an allotment of the employee which has 
    expired.

(Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 490.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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                                                    Revised Statutes and
     Derivation                U.S. Code             Statutes at Large
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(a)................  50A U.S.C. 1003 (1st          Mar. 7, 1942, ch.
                      sentence).                    166, Sec.  3, 56
                                                    Stat. 144.
                                                   Dec. 24, 1942, ch.
                                                    828, Sec.  1 (1st
                                                    par.), 56 Stat.
                                                    1092.
                     ............................  July 1, 1944, ch.
                                                    371, Sec.  3, 58
                                                    Stat. 680.
(b)................  50A U.S.C. 1003 (2d
                      sentence, less proviso).
(c)................  50A U.S.C. 1003 (1st proviso
                      of 2d sentence).
(d)................  50A U.S.C. 1003 (2d proviso
                      of 2d sentence).
(e)................  50A U.S.C. 1004               Mar. 7, 1942, ch.
                                                    166, Sec.  4, 56
                                                    Stat. 144.
                     ............................  Dec. 24, 1942, ch.
                                                    828, Sec.  1 (2d
                                                    par.), 56 Stat.
                                                    1093.
                     ............................  July 1, 1944, ch.
                                                    371, Sec.  4, 58
                                                    Stat. 680.
(f)................  50A U.S.C. 1006 (1st          Mar. 7, 1942, ch.
                      sentence).                    166, Sec.  6 (1st
                                                    sentence and 2d
                                                    sentence, as
                                                    applicable to
                                                    allotments); added
                     ............................  Dec. 24, 1942, ch.
                                                    828, Sec.  1 (4th
                                                    par.), 56 Stat.
                                                    1093.
                     ............................  Apr. 4, 1953, ch. 17,
                                                    Sec.  1(b), 67 Stat.
                                                    21.
                     ............................  Aug. 14, 1964, Pub.
                                                    L. 88-428, Sec.
                                                    1(5), 78 Stat. 437.
                     50A U.S.C. 1014 (as           Mar. 7, 1942, ch.
                      applicable to Sec.  1006      166, Sec.  14 (as
                      (1st sentence)).              applicable to Sec.
                                                    6 (1st sentence)),
                                                    56 Stat. 147.
                                                   Apr. 4, 1953, ch. 17,
                                                    Sec.  1(e), 67 Stat.
                                                    21.
(g)................  50A U.S.C. 1006 (2d
                      sentence, as applicable to
                      allotments).
(h)................  50A U.S.C. 1007.              Mar. 7, 1942, ch. 166
                                                    Sec.  7, 56 Stat.
                                                    145.
                                                   Aug. 14, 1964, Pub.
                                                    L. 88-428, Sec.
                                                    1(6), 78 Stat. 437.
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    Only that portion of the source law which is applicable to civilian 
officers and employees and their dependents is codified in this section.
    In subsection (a), the words ``employee . . . in a missing status'' 
are substituted for the reference to ``person . . . entitled under 
section 2 of this Act to receive or be credited with pay and 
allowances'' to conform to the definitions in section 5561(2) and (5). 
The words ``except as otherwise provided herein'' are omitted as 
unnecessary.
    In subsection (b), the words ``head of the agency concerned, he or 
his designee'' are substituted for ``head of the department concerned . 
. . head of the department concerned, or such subordinate as he may 
designate''. The word ``employee'' is substituted for ``person'' to 
conform to the definition in section 5561(2).
    In subsection (c), the words ``in effect'' are omitted as 
surplusage. The words ``employee in a missing status'' are substituted 
for ``absent person'' to conform to the definitions in section 5561(2) 
and (5).
    In subsection (d), the words ``United States'' are substituted for 
``Government'' to conform to the style of this title. The word 
``employee'' is substituted for ``person'' to conform to the definition 
in section 5561(2).
    In subsection (e), the words ``head of the agency concerned or his 
designee'' are substituted for ``head of the department concerned, or 
such subordinates as he may designate''. The words ``employee in a 
missing status'' are substituted for ``person entitled to receive or be 
credited with pay and allowances under section 2 of this Act'' to 
conform to the definitions in section 5561(2) and (5). The words 
``United States'' are substituted for ``Government'' to conform to the 
style of this title.
    In subsections (f) and (g), the words ``employee in a missing 
status'' are substituted for ``person missing under the conditions 
specified in section 2 of this Act'' to conform to the definitions in 
section 5561(2) and (5).
    In subsection (h), the words ``employee in a missing status'' are 
substituted for ``persons entitled under section 2 or 14 of this Act to 
receive pay and allowances'' to conform to the definitions in section 
5561(2) and (5). In paragraph (2), the words ``heretofore or hereafter'' 
are omitted as unnecessary.
    Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable 
and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 5567, 5569 of this title.
