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

# §5706b. Interview expenses


An individual being considered for employment by an [agency](/usc/5/5701.md?p=1) may be paid travel or transportation expenses under this subchapter for travel to and from pre-employment interviews determined necessary by the [agency](/usc/5/5701.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–509, title V, § 529 [title II, § 206(a)(1)], Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1427, 1457.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on such date as the President shall determine, but not earlier than 90 days, and not later than 180 days, after Nov. 5, 1990, see section 529 [title III, § 305] of Pub. L. 101–509, set out as an Effective Date of 1990 Amendment note under section 5301 of this title.