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PUBLIC LAW 89-554-SEPT. 6, 1966
[80 STAT.
after become entitled. However, a member who is performing fulltime training duty or other full-time duty without pay, or inactiveduty training with or without pay, is entitled to the pay and allowances to which he would have been entitled if he had been on active duty with pay. " (b) The expiration of a member's term of service while he is in a missing status does not end his entitlement to pay and allowances under subsection (a) of this section. Notwithstanding the death of a member while in a missing status, entitlement to pay and allowances under subsection (a) of this section ends on the date— "^1) the Secretary concerned receives evidence that the member IS dead; or "(2) that his death is prescribed or determined under section 555 of this title. "(c) A member is not entitled to pay and allowances under subsection (a) of this section for a period during which he is ojfficially determined to be absent from his post of duty without authority, and he is indebted to the United States for payments from amounts credited to his account for that period. " (d) A member who is performing full-time training duty or inactive-duty training is entitled to the benefits of this section only when he is officially determined to be in a missing status that results from the performance of duties prescribed by competent authority. "(e) A member in a missing status who is continued in that status under section 555 of this title is entitled to be credited with pay and allowances under subsection (a) of this section.
- ^§553. Allotments; continuance, suspension, initiation, resumption, or increase while in a missing status; limitations
" (a) Notwithstanding the end of the period for which it was made, an allotment, including one for the purchase of United States savings bonds, made by a member of a uniformed service before he was in a missing status may be continued for the period he is entitled to pay and allowances under section 552 of this title. " (b) When there is no allotment in effect, or when it is insufficient for a purpose authorized by the Secretary concerned, he, or his designee, may authorize new allotments or increases in allotments that are warranted by the circumstances and payable for the period the member is entitled to pay and allowances under section 552 of this title. "(c) The total of all allotments from the pay and allowances of a member in a missing status may not be more than the amount of pay and allowances he is permitted to allot under regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned. " (d) A premium paid by the United States on insurance issued on the life of a member which is unearned because it covers a period after his death reverts to the appropriation of the department concerned. "(e) Subject to subsections (f) and (g) of this section, the Secretary concerned, or his designee, may, when he considers it in the interest of the member, his dependents, or the United States, direct the initiation, continuance, discontinuance, increase, decrease, suspension, or resumption of payments of allotments from the pay and allowances of a member entitled to pay and allowances under section 552 of this title. " (f) When the Secretary concerned officially reports that a member in a missing status is alive, the payments oi allotments authorized by subsections (a.)-(d) of this section may, subject to section 552 of this title, be made until the date the Secretary concerned receives evi-
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