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10 U.S.C. § 2784a — Management of travel cards
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**(a) Disbursement of Travel Allowances Directly to Creditors.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall require that any part of a travel or transportation allowance of an employee of the Department of Defense or a member of the armed forces be disbursed directly to the issuer of a Defense travel card if the amount is disbursed to the issuer in payment of amounts of expenses of official travel that are charged by the employee or member on the Defense travel card.
(2) The Secretary of Defense may waive the requirement for a direct payment to a travel card issuer under paragraph (1) in any case the Secretary determines appropriate.
(3) For the purposes of this subsection, the travel and transportation allowances referred to in paragraph (1) are amounts to which an employee of the Department of Defense is entitled under [section 5702 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5702&num=0&edition=prelim) or a member of the armed forces is entitled under [section 452 of title 37](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section452&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Offsets for Delinquent Travel Card Charges.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense may require that there be deducted and withheld from any basic pay payable to an employee of the Department of Defense or a member of the armed forces any amount that is owed by the employee or member to a creditor by reason of one or more charges of expenses of official travel of the employee or member on a Defense travel card issued by the creditor if the employee or member—
(A) is delinquent in the payment of such amount under the terms of the contract under which the card is issued; and
(B) does not dispute the amount of the delinquency.
(2) The amount deducted a
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**(a) Disbursement of Travel Allowances Directly to Creditors.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall require that any part of a travel or transportation allowance of an employee of the Department of Defense or a member of the armed forces be disbursed directly to the issuer of a Defense travel card if the amount is disbursed to the issuer in payment of amounts of expenses of official travel that are charged by the employee or member on the Defense travel card.
(2) The Secretary of Defense may waive the requirement for a direct payment to a travel card issuer under paragraph (1) in any case the Secretary determines appropriate.
(3) For the purposes of this subsection, the travel and transportation allowances referred to in paragraph (1) are amounts to which an employee of the Department of Defense is entitled under [section 5702 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5702&num=0&edition=prelim) or a member of the armed forces is entitled under [section 452 of title 37](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section452&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Offsets for Delinquent Travel Card Charges.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense may require that there be deducted and withheld from any basic pay payable to an employee of the Department of Defense or a member of the armed forces any amount that is owed by the employee or member to a creditor by reason of one or more charges of expenses of official travel of the employee or member on a Defense travel card issued by the creditor if the employee or member—
(A) is delinquent in the payment of such amount under the terms of the contract under which the card is issued; and
(B) does not dispute the amount of the delinquency.
(2) The amount deducted and withheld from pay under paragraph (1) with respect to a debt owed a creditor as described in that paragraph shall be disbursed to the creditor to reduce the amount of the debt.
(3) The amount of pay deducted and withheld from the pay owed to an employee or member with respect to a pay period under paragraph (1) may not exceed 15 percent of the disposable pay of the employee or member for that pay period, except that a higher amount may be deducted and withheld with the written consent of the employee or member.
(4) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe procedures for deducting and withholding amounts from pay under this subsection. The procedures shall be substantially equivalent to the procedures under [section 3716 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section3716&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Offsets of Retired Pay.—** In the case of a former employee of the Department of Defense or a retired member of the armed forces who is receiving retired pay and who owes an amount to a creditor by reason of one or more charges on a Defense travel card that were made before the retirement of the employee or member, the Secretary may require amounts to be deducted and withheld from any retired pay of the former employee or retired member in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as the Secretary deducts and withholds amounts from basic pay payable to an employee or member under subsection (b).
**(d) Determinations of Creditworthiness for Issuance of Defense Travel Card.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall evaluate the creditworthiness of an employee of the Department of Defense or a member of armed forces before issuing a Defense travel card to such an employee or member. The evaluation may include an examination of the individual’s credit history in available credit records.
(2) An individual may not be issued a Defense travel card if the individual is found not creditworthy as a result of the evaluation required under paragraph (1).
**(e) Regulations on Disciplinary Action.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations for making determinations regarding the taking of disciplinary action, including assessment of penalties, against Department of Defense personnel for improper, fraudulent, or abusive use of Defense travel cards by such personnel.
(2) The regulations prescribed under paragraph (1) shall—
(A) provide for appropriate adverse personnel actions or other punishment to be imposed in cases in which employees of the Department of Defense violate such regulations or are negligent or engage in misuse, abuse, or fraud with respect to a Defense travel card, including removal in appropriate cases; and
(B) provide that a violation of such regulations by a person subject to chapter 47 of this title (the Uniform Code of Military Justice) is punishable as a violation of [section 892 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section892&num=0&edition=prelim) (article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice).
**(f) Definitions.—** In this section:
(1) The term “Defense travel card” means a charge or credit card that—
(A) is issued to an employee of the Department of Defense or a member of the armed forces under a contract entered into by the Department of Defense with the issuer of the card; and
(B) is to be used for charging expenses incurred by the employee or member in connection with official travel.
(2) The term “disposable pay”, with respect to a pay period, means the amount equal to the excess of the amount of basic pay or retired pay, as the case may be, payable for the pay period over the total of the amounts deducted and withheld from such pay.
(3) The term “retired pay” means—
(A) in the case of a former employee of the Department of Defense, any retirement benefit payable to that individual, out of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, based (in whole or in part) on service performed by such individual as a civilian employee of the Department of Defense; and
(B) in the case of a retired member of the armed forces or member of the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, retired or retainer pay to which the member is entitled.
**(g) Exclusion of Coast Guard.—** This section does not apply to the Coast Guard.
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**(a)** After trying to collect a claim from a person under [section 3711(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section3711/a&num=0&edition=prelim), the head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency may collect the claim by administrative offset. The head of the agency may collect by administrative offset only after giving the debtor—
(1) written notice of the type and amount of the claim, the intention of the head of the agency to collect the claim by administrative offset, and an explanation of the rights of the debtor under this section;
(2) an opportunity to inspect and copy the records of the agency related to the claim;
(3) an opportunity for a review within the agency of the decision of the agency related to the claim; and
(4) an opportunity to make a written agreement with the head of the agency to repay the amount of the claim.
**(b)** Before collecting a claim by administrative offset, the head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency must either—
(1) adopt, without change, regulations on collecting by administrative offset promulgated by the Department of Justice, the Government Accountability Office, or the Department of the Treasury; or
(2) prescribe regulations on collecting by administrative offset consistent with the regulations referred to in paragraph (1).
**(c)**
(1)
(A) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a disbursing official of the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Defense, the United States Postal Service, the Department of Health and Human Services, or any other government corporation, or any disbursing official of the United States designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall offset at least annually the amount of a payment which a payment
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**(a)**
(1) Under regulations prescribed pursuant to [section 5707 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5707&num=0&edition=prelim), an employee, when traveling on official business away from the employee’s designated post of duty, or away from the employee’s home or regular place of business (if the employee is described in [section 5703 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5703&num=0&edition=prelim)), is entitled to any one of the following:
(A) a per diem allowance at a rate not to exceed that established by the Administrator of General Services for travel within the continental United States, and by the President or his designee for travel outside the continental United States;
(B) reimbursement for the actual and necessary expenses of official travel not to exceed an amount established by the Administrator for travel within the continental United States or an amount established by the President or his designee for travel outside the continental United States; or
(C) a combination of payments described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this paragraph.
(2) Any per diem allowance or maximum amount of reimbursement shall be established, to the extent feasible, by locality. The Secretary of Defense shall not alter the amount of the per diem allowance, or the maximum amount of reimbursement, for a locality based on the duration of the travel in the locality of an employee of the Department.
(3) For travel consuming less than a full day, the payment prescribed by regulation shall be allocated in such manner as the Administrator may prescribe.
**(b)**
(1) Under regulations prescribed pursuant to [section 5707 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtm
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(1) **Sense of Congress** — It is the sense of Congress that the Federal air marshal program is critical to aviation security.
(2) **Limitation on statutory construction** — Nothing in this chapter, including any amendment made by this chapter, shall be construed as preventing the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security from implementing and training Federal air marshals.
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Any person subject to this chapter who—
(1) violates or fails to obey any lawful general order or regulation;
(2) having knowledge of any other lawful order issued by a member of the armed forces, which it is his duty to obey, fails to obey the order; or
(3) is derelict in the performance of his duties;
shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
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**(a) In General.—** Except as otherwise prohibited by law, a member of the uniformed services or other authorized traveler may be provided transportation-, lodging-, or meals-in-kind, or actual and necessary expenses of travel and transportation, for, or in connection with, official travel under circumstances as specified in regulations prescribed under [section 464 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section464&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Specific Circumstances.—** The authority under subsection (a) includes travel under or in connection with, but not limited to, the following circumstances, to the extent specified in regulations prescribed under [section 464 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section464&num=0&edition=prelim):
(1) Temporary duty that requires travel between a permanent duty assignment location and another authorized temporary duty location, and travel in or around the temporary duty location.
(2) Permanent change of station that requires travel between an old and new temporary or permanent duty assignment location or other authorized location.
(3) Temporary duty or assignment relocation related to consecutive overseas tours or in-place-consecutive overseas tours.
(4) Recruiting duties for the armed forces.
(5) Assignment or detail to another Government department or agency.
(6) Rest and recuperative leave.
(7) Convalescent leave.
(8) Reenlistment leave.
(9) Reserve component inactive-duty training performed outside the normal commuting distance of the member’s permanent residence.
(10) Ready Reserve muster duty.
(11) Unusual, extraordinary, hardship, or emergency circumstances.
(12) Presence of family members at a military medical facility in
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**(a) In General.—** The Secretary may require that travel or transportation allowances due a civilian employee or military member of the Coast Guard be disbursed directly to the issuer of a Federal contractor-issued travel charge card, but only in an amount not to exceed the authorized travel expenses charged by that Coast Guard member to that travel charge card issued to that employee or member.
**(b) Withholding of Nondisputed Obligations.—** The Secretary may also establish requirements similar to those established by the Secretary of Defense pursuant to [section 2784a of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2784a&num=0&edition=prelim) for deduction or withholding of pay or retired pay from a Coast Guard employee, member, or retired member who is delinquent in payment under the terms of the contract under which the card was issued and does not dispute the amount of the delinquency.
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 2781
CONTRACTS FOR RECOVERY OF INDEBTEDNESS
Pub. L. 101–165, title IX, § 9019, Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat.
1133, provided that: ‘‘During the current fiscal year and
hereafter, the Department of Defense may enter into
contracts to recover indebtedness to the United States
pursuant to section 3718 of title 31, United States
Code.’’
§ 2781. Availability of appropriations: exchange
fees; losses in accounts
Amounts appropriated to the Department of
Defense may be used for—
(1) exchange fees; and
(2) losses in the accounts of disbursing offi-
cials and agents in accordance with law.
(Added Pub. L. 100–370, § 1(m)(1), July 19, 1988, 102
Stat. 849.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Section is based on Pub. L. 99–190, § 101(b) [title VIII,
§ 8006(c)], Dec. 19, 1985, 99 Stat. 1185, 1203.
§ 2782. Damage to real property: disposition of
amounts recovered
Except as provided in section 2775 of this title,
amounts recovered for damage caused to real
property under the jurisdiction of the Secretary
of a military department or, with respect to the
Defense Agencies, under the jurisdiction of the
Secretary of Defense shall be credited to the ac-
count available for the repair or replacement of
the real property at the time of recovery. In
such amounts as are provided in advance in ap-
propriation Acts, amounts so credited shall be
available for use for the same purposes and
under the same circumstances as other funds in
the account.
(Added Pub. L. 104–106, div. B, title XXVIII,
§ 2821(a), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 556.)
Editorial Notes
PRIOR PROVISIONS
A prior section 2782, added Pub. L. 101–189, div. A,
title XVI, § 1603(a)(1), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1597, re-
lated to limits on restoration of unobligated balances
withdrawn f
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