Division 4: Miscellaneous costs of short-term duty overseas

13.2.11   Insuring personal effects
13.2.12   Entitlement – funeral costs
13.2.12A  Medical and dental costs [APS ONLY]

13.2.11   Insuring personal effects

	TAX ALERT: PACMATE Annex 3.B, item 16.
1.	The Commonwealth may provide or arrange insurance against loss or damage to members' personal effects carried on overseas visits.
2.	If the Commonwealth does not do this, members are entitled to be reimbursed for one of the following, whichever is less.
	a.	The premium paid to insure personal effects.
	b.	The cost of a premium that would insure personal effects for AUD 3,000.

13.2.12   Entitlement – funeral costs

	TAX ALERT: PACMATE Annex 3.B, item 17.
1.	If a member or dependant dies overseas, their legal personal representative is entitled to one of these amounts.
	a.	The cost of returning the body to Australia, if the next of kin request it.
	b.	Any excess costs for the funeral at the overseas location.
2.	For paragraph 1.b, these conditions apply.
	a.	The amount paid is the difference between the additional costs of a funeral at the overseas location and a comparable Australian funeral. Example: If a member would have paid AUD 5,000 for an Australian funeral and the overseas funeral cost AUD 8,000, the Commonwealth will reimburse AUD 3,000.
	b.	The amount cannot be more than the cost payable under paragraph 1.a.
	c.	The amount reimbursed must be reduced by any amount that the Commonwealth pays directly for the funeral. Example: The Commonwealth pays for the funeral at the overseas location. There is no entitlement under this clause.
	d.	The amount in paragraph 1.a covers the cost of returning the member's or dependant's remains to Australia. No additional amount is paid.
	Related Information: Chapter 11 Part 4, Funeral costs, floral and non-floral tributes

13.2.12A  Medical and dental costs [APS ONLY]

	TAX ALERT: PACMATE Annex 3.B, item 18.
1.	An employee might or fall ill or be injured while overseas. The Commonwealth will pay the cost of any necessary medical or hospital treatment.
2.	An employee might get essential emergency dental treatment while overseas. They are entitled to be reimbursed the additional cost above the cost of the same or similar treatment in Australia.
3.	The employee is taken to be on duty while they are ill or injured.

PACMAN                                                             Reprint (August 2010)                              Chapter 13 – Part 2 Division 4 – 1