If possible, the employer should offer suitable reemployment in the
location where the employee currently resides. If this is not practical,
the employer may offer suitable reemployment at the employee's former
duty station or other location. Where the distance between the location
of the offered job
and the location where the employee currently resides is at least 50
miles, OWCP may pay such relocation expenses as are considered
reasonable and necessary if the employee has been terminated from the
agency's employment rolls and would incur relocation expenses by
accepting the offered reemployment. OWCP may also pay such relocation
expenses when the new employer is other than a Federal employer. OWCP
will notify the employee that relocation expenses are payable if it
makes a finding that the job is suitable. To determine whether a
relocation expense is reasonable and necessary, OWCP shall use as a
guide the Federal travel regulations for permanent changes of duty
station.
