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• United States Code
• TITLE 5 - GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
• PART III - EMPLOYEES
• SUBPART D - PAY AND ALLOWANCES
• CHAPTER 55 - PAY ADMINISTRATION
• SUBCHAPTER VII - PAYMENTS TO MISSING EMPLOYEES

      For the purpose of this subchapter - 
        (1) "agency" means an Executive agency and a military
      department;
        (2) "employee" means an employee in or under an agency who is a
      citizen or national of the United States or an alien admitted to
      the United States for permanent residence, but does not include a
      part-time or intermittent employee or native labor casually hired
      on an hourly or daily basis. However, such an employee who enters
      a status listed in paragraph (5)(A)-(E) of this section - 
          (A) inside the continental United States; or
          (B) who is a resident at or in the vicinity of his place of
        employment in a territory or possession of the United States or
        in a foreign country and who was not living there solely as a
        result of his employment;

      is an employee for the purpose of this subchapter only on a
      determination by the head of the agency concerned that this
      status is the proximate result of employment by the agency;
        (3) "dependent" means - 
          (A) a wife;
          (B) an unmarried child (including an unmarried dependent
        stepchild or adopted child) under 21 years of age;
          (C) a dependent mother or father;
          (D) a dependent designated in official records; and
          (E) an individual determined to be dependent by the head of
        the agency concerned or his designee;

        (4) "active service" means active Federal service by an
      employee;
        (5) "missing status" means the status of an employee who is in
      active service and is officially carried or determined to be
      absent in a status of - 
          (A) missing;
          (B) missing in action;
          (C) interned in a foreign country;
          (D) captured, beleaguered, or besieged by a hostile force; or
          (E) detained in a foreign country against his will;

      but does not include the status of an employee for a period
      during which he is officially determined to be absent from his
      post of duty without authority; and
        (6) "pay and allowances" means - 
          (A) basic pay;
          (B) special pay;
          (C) incentive pay;
          (D) basic allowance for housing;
          (E) basic allowance for subsistence; and
          (F) station per diem allowances for not more than 90 days.