---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2765"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2765"
heading: "Retroactive payment of pay and allowances delayed by administrative error or oversight"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2765"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 27 — Pay, Allowances, Awards, and Other Rights and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter III — Payments"
---

# §2765. Retroactive payment of pay and allowances delayed by administrative error or oversight


Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, the Coast Guard may authorize retroactive payment of pay and allowances, including selective reenlistment bonuses, to enlisted members if entitlement to the pay and allowances was delayed in vesting solely because of an administrative error or oversight.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–448, § 13(a), Sept. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 1844, § 513; renumbered § 2765, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 116(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4226.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 513 of this title as this section.