---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 C.F.R. § 302-6.2"
title: "41"
number: "302-6.2"
heading: "Eligibility for TQSE allowance."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/41/302-6.2"
---

# §302-6.2. Eligibility for TQSE allowance.


Employees are eligible for a TQSE allowance if their agency has authorized one and the following conditions are met:

- (a) The agency authorizes TQSE before occupancy of the temporary quarters begins;
- (b) The new official station is located within the United States;
- (c) The relocation authorization specifies the number of days allowed to receive TQSE;
- (d) The employee has signed a service agreement;
- (e) The old and new official stations are at least 50 miles apart (as measured by map distance) via a usually traveled surface route; and
- (f) **The employee meets the distance test (Note—** If a waiver to the distance test is granted, the employee is not eligible for TQSE.).

## 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.