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width="798px" id="AutoNumber1"> <tr> <td width="798px"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="798px" valign="top"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td> <center> <h1> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; margin: 0in 0in 0pt" align="center"></p> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Education Allowance and Educational Travel</span></span></div> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><br><br>Education Allowance:</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> The purpose of the education allowance is to assist an employee in defraying those costs necessary to obtain educational services (grades K-12) that would normally be free of charge in the U.S. The allowance is based on the least expensive "adequate" school at post. A school is deemed adequate if, upon completion of a grade at the school, a child of normal ability could enter the next higher grade at a public school in the United States. When a school is adequate, the rates for attending a school "at post" and attending a school "away from post" will be the same. The "away-from-post" education allowance can be used to pay for tuition, room and board, unaccompanied air baggage and periodic transportation between the post and the school.</span></div> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><br>The regulations also provide a "special-needs" education allowance in lieu of the "at-post" or "away-from-post" education allowances listed by country/post in </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)"><a title="DSSR" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)" href="/Web920/education_all.asp?MenuHide=1">DSSR</a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">920. There is also education allowance funding for children who are home-schooled.  DOD employees come under separate authority for education benefits. Note: the transportation portion of the "away-from-post" rate should not be confused with the separate benefit of educational travel described below. See</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)"><a title="DSSR" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)" href="/content.asp?content_id=282&menu_id=101">DSSR</a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">section 270 for more information on the education allowance.</span></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Education Allowance reimbursement reminder: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Suspension and Debarment specifically prohibits excluded parties from soliciting, conducting, or participating in business with the Federal Government. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Similarly, the Federal Government shall not enter into, renew, or extend award for any procurement or covered transactions. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Education Allowances are considered covered transactions under 2 C.F.R. 180 ("The Non-procurement Common Rule"). </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Therefore, payments may not be made directly or indirectly by Agencies to listed parties. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To ensure that you receive reimbursement for allowable Education Allowances check SAM.gov before acquiring services from an educational vendor to make sure they are not excluded from receiving Federal funds.</span></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><br></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Educational Travel:</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">This allowance permits one round trip annually between a school attended and the foreign post of assignment. This benefit is primarily intended to reunite a full-time post-secondary student attending college (including the post-baccalaureate level), technical or vocational school with the employee/parent serving the U.S. government in the foreign area. However, educational travel may be paid for a child in secondary school</span> <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">(grades 9 through 12) instead of the education allowance described above.<br></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><br>Educational travel cannot be paid at the same time as the education allowance and should not be confused with the transportation component of the "away-from-post" education allowance. Educational travel can commence from either the school or the post, but only one round trip between school and post is allowed annually.  Based on a change in law, the DSSR changed effective July 22, 2007 eliminating the restriction that the school attended</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">full-time had to be in the United States.  The educational travel benefit ceases once the student dependent reaches the age of 23, except for in limited cases when the child's education is delayed by military service (See </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)"><a title="DSSR" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)" href="/content.asp?content_id=250&menu_id=75">DSSR</a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">284 for further information).</span><br><br><br>MORE INFORMATION:<br><br><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)"><a style="COLOR: " href="/content/Documents/Education Survey Guidance_042023.docx"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)">Guidance on Preparing Education Allowance Surveys</span></a> </span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">(4/2023) (Intranet ONLY)</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><br><br></span></div> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)"><a title="'Find" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)" href="http://aoprals.a.state.gov/content.asp?content_id=158&menu_id=75" the="" school??="" ?base="">Find the "Base School"</a> </span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">(2019) (Intranet ONLY)</span></span></p> <p style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span ?arial?,?sans-serif??="" font-family:="" 10pt;=""><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">*List of all schools used as basis for at post allowance</span><br></span></p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><br><a title="Foreign service assignment notebook" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)" href="https://www.state.gov/m/fsi/tc/c49274.htm">Foreign Service Assignment Notebook</a><br><br><br>FORMS:<br><br><a title="SF-1190" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)" href="http://www.gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/115694">SF-1190</a></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">(07/2009) - Foreign Allowances Application, Grant and Report - filled out individually for each child<br></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: medium"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><br></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">DS-0063</span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> (03/2015) - Education Allowance Questionnaire</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> (</span><a title="myData" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)" href="http://a.m.state.sbu/sites/gis/dir/eforms/forms/ds63.far">myData</a> <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">version/Intranet ONLY)<br></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">  Form to complete Education Allowance survey; </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Open the myData version with Cerenade Filler</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><br></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">DSSR 960<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> -</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,32,96)"> </span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Education Allowance Worksheet</span><br></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">  Worksheet that Employee can attach to the SF-1190 for an Education Allowance claim for each child<br></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><br><br>LINKS:<br><br><a title="Education allowance rates" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)" href="/Web920/education_all.asp?MenuHide=1">Education Allowance Rates</a><br><br><a title="Allowances by location" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)" href="/Web920/location.asp?menu_id=74">Allowances by Location</a></span><b style="FONT-SIZE: medium"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><br></span></span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">*To view Reporting Schedule select Allowances by Location and enter your post name<br></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><br></span><a title="Survey status by post" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; color: rgb(0,0,128)" href="http://aoprals.a.state.gov/rates/Survey.asp?menu_id=16">Survey Status by Post</a></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: medium; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,99)"> </span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">(Intranet ONLY)<br></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px"><br><br>RESOURCES:<br><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Overseas Schools (</span><a title="Internet" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)" href="https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-management/bureau-of-administration/office-of-overseas-schools/">Internet</a> <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">&</span> <a title="Intranet" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,128)" href="http://aopros.a.state.gov/">Intranet</a><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">)</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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