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Foreign Service employees and family members are encouraged to read the following materials to familiarize themselves with contingency planning and evacuation resources. For more information, please contact the Family Liaison Office at 202-647-1076 or 1-800-440-0397 or send an email to FLOAskEvacuations@state.gov. Attention evacuees: To receive information pertinent to your post's evacuation status, please provide the Family Liaison Office with your contact information, including email address and phone number. The Family Liaison Office is responsible for maintaining contact with evacuees. Contingency Planning Evacuation Plan: Don't Leave Home Without It - Checklist for before, during and after an evacuation Evacuation Resources Evacuation Questions and Answers Evacuation Allowances Sample Evacuation and Separate Maintenance Allowance Amounts (by family size) - Daily Rates, Monthly Rates Subsistence Expense Allowance (SEA) - Subsistence Expense Allowance (SEA) is the allowance given to official evacuees. For evacuees returning to the continental United States, the allowance is based on the locality per diem rate of your safehaven location ( If the evacuee's safehaven location is not listed under Domestic Per Diem Rates, then the standard CONUS per diem rate applies). For evacuees at a foreign safehaven, the SEA is based on the lower of the following: the locality per diem rate to which he/she is evacuated or the standard CONUS rate. (Please note that an evacuee's request for foreign safehaven must be approved by the Department of State.) Filling out and faxing these forms quickly (directions on the forms) will help to expedite the SEA payments to you. Remember to make copies of all documents for your own records. DSSR 600 - EPW - Evacuation Payment Worksheet Information from the Department of State (DOS), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Department of Defense (DOD), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS/USDA), United States Customs Service, and the Voice of America/International Broadcasting Bureau (VOA/IBB) is also included in the Welcome Back: Evacuation Packet. PLEASE NOTE: Evacuees should wait until they are in the U.S. or at their foreign safehaven location to submit the Subsistence Expense Allowance forms. Used airline tickets and lodging receipts are necessary for completing the application and applications are not processed without them. Forms may be faxed. Allowances Immediately Following An Evacuation Transitional Separate Maintenance Allowance (TSMA) - TSMA is to assist employees with additional costs they incur when their family members are required to occupy temporary commercial housing while establishing permanent housing in the U.S. following an evacuation and the conversion of the post to an unaccompanied status. TSMA regulations can be found in DSSR 266.4 Transitional SMA and 267.1 Determination of Rates (b). Additional Web Resources Office of Allowances Frequently Asked Questions Information provided by the Family Liaison Office | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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