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Appendix A Appendix A to Subpart B of Part 591 — Places and Rates at Which Allowances Are Paid

Appendix B Appendix B to Subpart B to Part 591 — Places and Rates At Which Differentials Are Paid

Subpart B — Cost-of-Living Allowance and Post Differential — Nonforeign Areas

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5941; E.O. 10000, 3 CFR, 1943-1948 Comp., p. 792; and E.O. 12510, 3 CFR, 1985 Comp., p. 338.

Source: 67 FR 22340, May 3, 2002, unless otherwise noted.

Editorial Note: Nomenclature changes to subpart B of part 591 appear at 70 FR 31313, May 31, 2005.

§591.201 — Definitions

§591.202 — Why does the Government pay COLAs?

§591.203 — Why does the Government pay post differentials?

§591.204 — Who can receive COLAs and post differentials?

§591.205 — Which areas are nonforeign areas?

§591.206 — How does OPM establish COLA areas?

§591.207 — Which areas are COLA areas?

§591.208 — How does OPM establish COLA rates?

§591.209 — What is a price index?

§591.210 — What are weights?

§591.211 — What are the categories of consumer expenditures?

§591.212 — How does OPM select survey items?

§591.213 — What prices does OPM collect?

§591.214 — How does OPM collect prices?

§591.215 — Where does OPM collect prices in the COLA and DC areas?

§591.216 — How does OPM combine survey data for the DC area and for COLA areas with multiple survey areas?

§591.217 — In which outlets does OPM collect prices?

§591.218 — How does OPM compute price indexes?

§591.219 — How does OPM compute shelter price indexes?

§591.220 — How does OPM calculate energy utility cost indexes?

§591.221 — How does OPM compute the consumer expenditure weights it uses to combine price indexes?

§591.222 — How does OPM use the expenditure weights to combine price indexes?

§591.223 — When does OPM conduct COLA surveys?

§591.224 — How does OPM adjust price indexes between surveys?

§591.225 — Which CPIs does OPM use?

§591.226 — How does OPM apply the CPIs?

§591.227 — What adjustment factors does OPM add to the price indexes?

§591.228 — How does OPM convert the price index plus adjustment factor to a COLA rate?

§591.229 — How does OPM inform agencies and employees of COLA rate changes?

§591.230 — When does OPM establish post differential areas?

§591.231 — Which areas are post differential areas?

§591.232 — How does OPM establish and review post differentials?

§591.233 — Who can receive a post differential?

§591.234 — Under what circumstances may people recruited locally receive a post differential?

§591.235 — When do COLA and post differential payments begin?

§591.236 — When do COLA and post differential payments end?

§591.237 — Under what circumstances may employees on leave or travel receive a COLA and/or post differential?

§591.238 — How do agencies pay COLAs and post differentials?

§591.239 — How do agencies treat COLAs and post differentials for the purpose of overtime pay and other entitlements?

§591.240 — How are agency and employee representatives involved in the administration of the COLA and post differential programs?

§591.241 — What are the key activities of the COLA Advisory Committees?

§591.242 — What is the tenure of a COLA Advisory Committee?

§591.243 — How many members are on each COLA Advisory Committee?

§591.244 — How does OPM select COLA Advisory Committee members?