| UTD for MAP 37-24(I), Clarify Eligibility Requirements for Non-Emergency Specialty Care | This item clarifies that a patient may be eligible for travel allowances if the qualifications as specified in health care programs established and administered by the Military Health System are met for travel reimbursement. Effective when published in the Joint Travel Regulations (JTR). | 7/1/2024 |
| UTD for MAP 55-24(I), Clarify Maximum Reimbursement Amount For Temporary Lodging Expense (TLE) | This item clarifies that all lodging taxes and mandatory fees are included in the maximum temporary lodging expense (TLE) reimbursement amount. A Service member and his or her dependent may be reimbursed up to a maximum of $290 per day. Effective September 1, 2024. | 9/1/2024 |
| UTD for MAP 15-24(I), Clarify Inactive Duty Training (IDT) Outside the Normal Commuting Area | This item clarifies that allowances paid to Reserve component (RC) members performing IDT outside the normal commuting distance are limited to expenses for travel to and from the IDT location (as identified in JTR, par. 032304-B). | 3/13/2024 |
| UTD/CTD for MAP/CAP 80-24(I), Clarify POV Use During Evacuation and Evacuation Related TDY | This item clarifies that an Authorizing or Approving Official (AO) may authorize privately owned vehicle (POV) use as advantageous to the Government without the use of a constructed cost comparison or constructed travel worksheet for evacuation travel or evacuation related temporary duty (TDY) travel. It also clarifies if an AO authorizes POV use for evacuation travel as advantageous to the Government, it is automatically considered advantageous for travel returning to the permanent duty station. Effective November 1, 2024. | 11/1/2024 |
| UTD for MAP 82-24(I), Clarification of Roundtrip Transportation Incurred by a Child Care Provider | This item clarifies that an eligible Service member can be reimbursed for expenses incurred by a child care provider for roundtrip commercial transportation, up to the maximum reimbursement amounts. This change affects JTR, par. 050108-B. Effective November 1, 2024. | 11/1/2024 |
| UTD/CTD for MAP/CAP 23-24(I), Partially Rescinding MAP-CAP 12-24 (I) | This item clarifies that due to review by the Office of General Counsel subsequent to the publication of MAP-CAP 12-24 (I) "Clarification of Rental Vehicle Expenses" it was identified that the changes made to Table 2-8 Rule 5 must be rescinded. Additional changes may be implemented once guidance is received regarding rental vehicle vendors charging the Government Administrative Rate Supplemental (GARS) after April 1, 2024 for reservations made prior to April 1, 2024 and how the U.S. Government will recoup any charges that may have occurred. | 4/15/2024 |
| UTD/CTD for MAP/CAP 38-24(I), Clarify Designated Individual is Replaced by Family Member | This item clarifies that due to statutory changes, 37 USC §452(b)(12) and (13) authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide travel and transportation to family members of Service members for their presence at a military medical facility incident to the injury or illness of members or at the repatriation of members held captive. Family member with respect to a member of the Uniformed Services is defined in 37 USC §451(a)(3). For civilian employees serving in a foreign location, 10 USC §1599b authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide civilian employees and members of their families abroad with benefits that are comparable to certain benefits provided by the Secretary of State to members of the Foreign Service. 22 USC §4081 (9) authorizes the Secretary of State to provide roundtrip travel for family members to an employee’s post of assignment only where the family of the employee is prevented by official order from residing at such post. Neither 22 USC §4081 nor 16 Foreign Area Manual (FAM) 300 offer a specific definition of the term family member. Effective November 1, 2024. | 11/1/2024 |
| UTD for MAP 68-24(E), Clarification of Entitlements for Retirement and Separation Travel | This item clarifies that entitlement to travel and transportation allowances for eligible retiring and separating Service members is based on two things, the first is the Service member is issued orders for any of the categories listed in JTR par. 051001, and the second is that the Service member and/or dependents must actually travel to the appropriate location identified in JTR section 0510. Effective November 1, 2024. | 11/1/2024 |
| UTD/CTD for MAP/CAP 60-23(E), Travel In and Around the PDS | This item clarifies that for Service members and employees who are working remotely, whose official worksite is as defined in 5 CFR 531.602 and determined under the criteria in 5 CFR 531.605, whose remote official worksite is not within a defined local area, the local area will be within 50 miles of that remote official worksite. For remote Service members and employees within the local commuting area, transportation expenses between a Service member’s or an employee’s official worksite and the Service’s or organization’s worksite may be authorized, at the discretion of the Service’s or organization’s remote work policy. | 7/18/2023 |
| UTD/CTD for MAP/CAP 05-24(I), Clarification of Limitation on Lodging Taxes and Fees Reimbursement | This item clarifies that if a traveler does not utilize lodging at or below the lodging portion of the applicable per diem rate, and is not authorized AEA, lodging taxes and percentage-based fees will be prorated to what the Government would have paid if the traveler did utilize lodging at the per diem rate. If the TDY location is an ILP location, the same applies to the published ILP rate rather than the per diem rate. | 3/7/2024 |