§ 5561. Definitions

For the purpose of this subchapter—

• (1) “agency” means an Executive agency and a military department;
• (2) “employee” means an employee in or under an agency who is a citizen or national of the United States or an alien admitted to the United States for permanent residence, but does not include a part-time or intermittent employee or native labor casually hired on an hourly or daily basis. However, such an employee who enters a status listed in paragraph (5)(A)–(E) of this section—
  • (A) inside the continental United States; or
  • (B) who is a resident at or in the vicinity of his place of employment in a territory or possession of the United States or in a foreign country and who was not living there solely as a result of his employment;
• (3) “dependent” means—
  • (A) a wife;
  • (B) an unmarried child (including an unmarried dependent stepchild or adopted child) under 21 years of age;
  • (C) a dependent mother or father;
  • (D) a dependent designated in official rec­ords; and
  • (E) an individual determined to be dependent by the head of the agency concerned or his designee;
• (4) “active service” means active Federal service by an employee;
• (5) “missing status” means the status of an employee who is in active service and is officially carried or determined to be absent in a status of—
  • (A) missing;
  • (B) missing in action;
  • (C) interned in a foreign country;
  • (D) captured, beleaguered, or besieged by a hostile force; or
  • (E) detained in a foreign country against his will;
• (6) “pay and allowances” means—
  • (A) basic pay;
  • (B) special pay;
  • (C) incentive pay;
  • (D) basic allowance for housing;
  • (E) basic allowance for subsistence; and
  • (F) station per diem allowances for not more than 90 days.