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The Service concerned must consider a member eligible for Temporary Lodging Allowance (TLA) if each of the following is true:
- The member is assigned to an Outside of the Continental United States (OCONUS) permanent duty station under permanent change of station orders.
- The member is ordered on deployment from the home port of the ship, staff or afloat unit.
- The member was receiving TLA prior to being ordered on deployment from the home port of the ship, staff, or afloat unit.
- Government quarters were not assigned to the member at the home port of the ship, staff or afloat unit prior to the member being ordered on deployment from the home port.
- One of the following is true:
- The member was awaiting assignment to government quarters prior to being ordered on deployment from the home port of the ship, staff, or afloat unit.
- The member was searching for or completing arrangements for private sector housing prior to being ordered on deployment from the home port of the ship, staff, or afloat unit.
- The member was occupying temporary lodging prior to being ordered on deployment from the home port of the ship, staff, or afloat unit.
- The member is not eligible for Monetary Allowance in Lieu of Transportation-Plus Per Diem.
- The member is not in any of the following statuses:
- Absent Without Leave in excess of twenty-four hours, unless the absence is excused as unavoidable
- Civil Confinement - In Hands of Civil Authority
- Desertion
- Excess Leave
- Military Confinement - Constructively Absent |