---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 5737"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "5737"
heading: "Relocation expenses of an employee who is performing an extended assignment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/5737"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart D — Pay and Allowances"
  - "Chapter 57 — Travel, Transportation, and Subsistence"
  - "Subchapter II — Travel and Transportation Expenses; New Appointees, Student Trainees, and Transferred Employees"
---

# §5737. Relocation expenses of an employee who is performing an extended assignment

- (a) Under regulations prescribed under [section 5738 of this title](/usc/5/5738.md), an [agency](/usc/5/5701.md?p=1) may [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4) to or on behalf of an [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2) assigned from the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2)’s official station to a duty station for a period of not less than six months and not greater than 30 months, the following expenses in lieu of payment of expenses authorized under subchapter I of this chapter:
  - (1) Travel expenses to and from the assignment location in accordance with [section 5724 of this title](/usc/5/5724.md).
  - (2) Transportation expenses of the immediate family and household goods and personal effects to and from the assignment location in accordance with [section 5724 of this title](/usc/5/5724.md).
  - (3) A [per diem allowance](/usc/5/5701.md?p=4) for en route travel of the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2)’s immediate family to and from the assignment location in accordance with [section 5724a(a) of this title](/usc/5/5724a.md?p=a).
  - (4) Travel and transportation expenses of the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2) and spouse to seek new residence quarters at the assignment location in accordance with [section 5724a(b) of this title](/usc/5/5724a.md?p=b).
  - (5) [Subsistence](/usc/5/5701.md?p=3) expenses of the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2) and the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2)’s immediate family while occupying temporary quarters upon commencement and termination of the assignment in accordance with [section 5724a(c) of this title](/usc/5/5724a.md?p=c).
  - (6) An amount, in accordance with [section 5724a(f)](/usc/5/5724a.md?p=f), to be used by the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2) for miscellaneous expenses of this title.[^1]
  - (7) The expenses of transporting a privately owned motor vehicle or vehicles to the assignment location in accordance with [section 5727 of this title](/usc/5/5727.md).
  - (8) An allowance as authorized under [section 5724b of this title](/usc/5/5724b.md) for Federal, [State](/usc/5/8521.md?p=a-3), and local income taxes incurred on reimbursement of expenses paid under this section or on [services](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26) provided in kind under this section.
  - (9) Expenses of nontemporary storage of household goods and personal effects as defined in [section 5726(a) of this title](/usc/5/5726.md?p=a), subject to the limitation that the weight of the household goods and personal effects stored, together with the weight of property transported under [section 5724(a) of this title](/usc/5/5724.md?p=a), may not exceed the total maximum weight which could be transported in accordance with [section 5724(a) of this title](/usc/5/5724.md?p=a).
  - (10) Expenses of property management [services](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26).
- (b) An [agency](/usc/5/5701.md?p=1) shall not make payment under this section to or on behalf of the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2) for expenses incurred after termination of the temporary assignment.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XVII, § 1716, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2756.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after Sept. 23, 1996, see section 1725(a) of Pub. L. 104–201, set out as an Effective Date of 1996 Amendment note under section 5722 of this title.