No post allowance for third-nation employees

No post allowance for third-nation employees
By Lisa M. Novak, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Hundreds of nonappropriated fund employees throughout the world had a reason to celebrate recently when the Defense Department announced that all full-time workers should be receiving a cost-of-living allowance.

However, not all NAF employees were jumping for joy.

For a group of third-country nationals — those who are neither American citizens nor citizens of the host nation — the DOD’s ruling in March didn’t mean much.

Unlike local national employees who are paid in the local currency, these third-country nationals are paid in U.S. dollars, with no compensation for a constantly declining dollar.

"The requirement for U.S. Citizenship in order to receive most overseas allowances is not only in DOD policy and Department of State regulation, but also in law," said Lt. Col. Les’ Melnyk, a Defense Department spokesman.


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