---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 C.F.R. § 302-11.2"
title: "41"
number: "302-11.2"
heading: "Types of reimbursable residence transaction expenses."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/41/302-11.2"
---

# §302-11.2. Types of reimbursable residence transaction expenses.

- (a) If an employee qualifies for a residence transaction expense allowance, they may be reimbursed for the:
  - (1) Expenses of selling the old residence and purchasing a new residence in the United States; or
  - (2) Settlement of an unexpired lease at the old official station in the United States from which transferred to another official station in the United States or when assigned to a foreign post of duty; and
  - (3) Expenses of purchasing a new residence in the United States upon return to the United States upon completion of the foreign tour of duty and the return is to a different official station, and is 50 miles distance from the official station which the employee transferred from.
- (b) Employees do not have to sell the residence at their old official station to be eligible for residence purchase transactions at their new official station.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5738 and 20 U.S.C. 905(c).

### Source

Source: FTR Case 2025-05, 90 FR 56893, Dec. 8, 2025, unless otherwise noted.