---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 C.F.R. § 302-5.2"
title: "41"
number: "302-5.2"
heading: "Requirements to receive a househunting trip expenses allowance and timeframe to begin the trip."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/41/302-5.2"
---

# §302-5.2. Requirements to receive a househunting trip expenses allowance and timeframe to begin the trip.


Employees will receive a househunting trip expenses allowance and may begin the househunting trip when:

- (a) The agency authorized a househunting trip in advance of the travel (the agency authorization must specify the mode of transportation and the period of time allowed for the trip);
- (b) The employee has signed a service agreement;
- (c) The agency has established and informed the employee of the date they are to report to their new official station;
- (d) The employee is in a duty status when they perform a househunting trip; and
- (e) **Any additional conditions established by the agency have been met.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5738; 20 U.S.C. 905(a); E.O. 11609, 36 FR 13747, 3 CFR, 1971-1975 Comp., p. 586.

### Source

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