---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 5706"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "5706"
heading: "Allowable travel expenses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/5706"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart D — Pay and Allowances"
  - "Chapter 57 — Travel, Transportation, and Subsistence"
  - "Subchapter I — Travel and Subsistence Expenses; Mileage Allowances"
---

# §5706. Allowable travel expenses


Except as otherwise permitted by this subchapter or by statutes relating to [members](/usc/5/8401.md?p=20) of the uniformed [services](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26), only actual and necessary travel expenses may be allowed to an individual holding employment or appointment under the [United States](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-18).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 500.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Derivation | U.S. Code | Revised Statutes and<br>Statutes at Large |
|  | 5 U.S.C. 839. | June 9, 1949, ch. 185, § 6, 63 Stat. 167. |

The words “members of the uniformed services” are substituted for “military personnel”.

Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.