---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 C.F.R. § 303-70.1"
title: "41"
number: "303-70.1"
heading: "Circumstances requiring payment of death-related expenses."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/41/303-70.1"
---

# §303-70.1. Circumstances requiring payment of death-related expenses.


Agencies must authorize payment of expenses when the employee, at the time of death, was:

- (a) On official travel status away from the official station;
- (b) Performing official duties OCONUS or in transit;
- (c) Reassigned away from their actual place of residence under a mandatory mobility agreement;
- (d) In direct support of or directly related to a military operation, including a contingency operation, or an operation in response to an emergency declared by the President as provided in [§ 303-70.600](/cfr/41/303-70.600.md); or
- (e) Performing official duties as determined by the head of agency and was a covered employee as provided in [§ 303-70.700](/cfr/41/303-70.700.md).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5721-5738; 5741-5742; E.O. 11609, 36 FR 13747, 3 CFR, 1971-1975 Comp., p 586; Presidential Memorandum of September 12, 2011, 76 FR 57621, 3 CFR, 2011 Comp., p. 356.

### Source

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