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- Travel, PCS and Transportation
- Important Regulation Changes
- Travel & Transportation Entitlements Summary
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS)
- Temporary Duty (TDY)
- Junior COSTEP Travel Information
- Official Travel Forms
- Household Goods Officers
- Transportation
- Government Travel Charge Card
- Table of Frequently Used Acronyms
- Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
- Links
- Travel and Transportation Allowances FAQ
- About Personnel & Career Management
- Awards-Officer Awards Program
- Nominations Procedures and Forms
- Eligibility to Receive Awards
- Approval Levels
- Types of Recognition & Awards Criteria
- Non-PHS Awards
- Write-Up (Narrative) Guidance & Tips
- List of OPDIV Awards Coordinators (PDF, 67kb)
- List of Liaisons (PDF, 266kb)
- 2021 USPHS Awards Process Flowchart (PDF, 702kb)
- FAQs
- PHS Award Recipients
- DEERS Information (PDF, 139kb)
- Important Information Regarding DEERS and ID Cards During COVID-19 (PDF, 57kb)
- eCORPS Information
- Education Benefits Overview
- FAQs
- Forms
- Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF)
- eOPF FAQs
- eOPF Status
- FAQs Practice Hours and Special Pay Changes
- Licensure
- Transcripts FAQs
- Extramural and Intramural Training FAQs
- Officer Leave and Absence Request FAQ
- Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA)
- Veteran Health Administration (VHA) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Practice Hours
- Link to list of Professional Advisory Committee (PAC) Chairs (PDF, 19kb)
- About Policy
- Commissioned Corps Issuance System
- Equal Opportunity
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Political Restrictions
- Promotion Ceremony Protocol (PDF, 126kb)
- SGHG Drill and Ceremonies Manual (PDF, 3.39mb)
- Uniform Specifications
- PHS Hard Shoulder Boards and Sleeve Insignia (Male and Female) (PDF, 828kb)
- PHS Soft Shoulder Marks (Unisex) (PDF, 324kb)
- Medical Requirements for Promotion
- Force Readiness Information
- Link to list of Chief Professional Officers (CPO) (PDF, 348kb)
- Link to list of Liaisons (PDF, 266kb)
- Promotion Board Recommendations
- Not promoted? Now What?
- FAQs
- Board Composition and Scoresheet FAQs
- Officer Promotion Packet Verification System (OPPVS) Timeline & FAQs
- Promotion, Readiness and Compliance FAQs
- Permanent Promotion Eligibility Chart
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- Visit CDC.gov for Coronavirus (COVID-19) Public Health Updates
As Public Health Service Officers and America’s Health Responders, we stand ready to preserve public health and national security during national or global health emergencies. Our mission is to be out the door as soon as requested, as this is an “all hands on deck” situation. All Corps officers were placed on involuntary deploy or "alert" status effective Wednesday, March 25, 2020, irrespective of the 'on-call month' status. Under Commissioned Corps Directive 121.02, "Deployment and Readiness," as directed by Assistant Secretary for Health, Commissioned Corps Headquarters will deploy Commissioned Corps officers assigned to HHS OpDivs/StaffDivs, either voluntarily or involuntarily and without supervisory approval, who are not considered mission critical, for deployments, under the current National Emergency. Mission critical requests sent to CCHQ are not final until the request is approved by the CCHQ Director as per the POM 821.76 ”Deployment Procedures”. An officer with a non-HHS organization may be deployed in accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement/Understanding between the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the non-HHS organization.
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Financial Services
Active Duty Pay Uniformed Service Members - The Basics
Current pay rates and tables: https://www.dfas.mil/militarymembers/payentitlements/Pay-Tables.html
Basic Pay, Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH), and Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) are the fundamental components of military pay. Officers who are married or have legitimate dependents are paid at a higher rate.
The Department of Defense Military Compensation website addresses military pay and benefits for current members, retirees, and survivors of retirees. Provided by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness the site defines the compensation available to uniformed members.
Special and Incentive Pay
Officers are also compensated financially for circumstances such as separation from family, hazardous duty, and assignment to specific duty locations. In addition to basic pay elements, a special, incentive, or critical skills pay is given to qualified officers who possess specific or unique skills, or ones at a critical shortage. PHS utilizes Health Professions Special Pay (HPSP) to compensate officers possessing unique skills to retain them for specified periods of time. Additional HPSP information can be found on the CCHQ website https://dcp.psc.gov/ccmis/HPSP/HPSP.aspxClothing Allowance
Officers new to Active Duty are eligible to receive a one-time uniform allowance to offset the initial expense of purchasing a new wardrobe of uniforms.Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH)
BAH is an allowance to offset the cost of housing when officers do not receive government-provided housing. BAH depends upon duty location, pay grade and whether the officer has dependents. BAH rates are set by surveying the cost of rental properties in each geographic location. Therefore, BAH rates in high-cost areas will be much greater than those in low-cost areas. BAH rates are published on the https://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/site/bah.cfmOverseas Housing Allowance (OHA)
The Overseas Housing Allowance, or OHA, is paid to officers who live in private housing at overseas duty station. OHA helps offset housing costs, which are made up of rent, utility and recurring maintenance expenses, and move-in housing allowance (MIHA). Get current housing allowances for members stationed overseas at the Defense Travel Management Office OHA website.Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS)
BAS is meant to offset costs for a member's meals. This allowance is based in the historic origins of the military in which the military provided room and board (or rations) as part of a member's pay. This allowance is not intended to offset the costs of meals for family members.Servicemembers Group Life Insurance (SGLI)
Officers automatically have the maximum $500,000 of SGLI coverage. Officers can decline or elect lesser amounts of coverage in writing in increments of $50,000. SGLI coverage stays in effect for 120 days after discharge. Members who have SGLI automatically have Traumatic SGLI (TSGLI).Family Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (FSGLI)
Provides group term life insurance coverage to the spouses and dependent children of Officers insured under SGLI. The Officer pays the premium for spousal coverage. Dependent children are insured at no cost.Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)
The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) is a Federal Government-sponsored retirement savings and investment plan. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 extended participation in the TSP, which was originally only for Federal civilian employees, to members of the uniformed services, and members began enrolling on October 9, 2001. The TSP offers the same type of savings and tax benefits that many private corporations offer their employees under so-called "401(k)" plans. The retirement income that you receive from your TSP account will depend on how much you have contributed to your account during your working years and the earnings on those contributions. For more information on the TSP, visit the official TSP website at www.tsp.govBlended Retirement System (BRS)
Officers called to active duty after Dec. 31, 2017 - are enrolled in the BRS. The BRS includes automatic government contributions of 1 percent of basic pay and government matching contributions of up to an additional 4 percent of basic pay to an officer’s TSP account. Officers nearing ten years of active duty service, can elect to receive Continuation pay. Continuation pay is a direct cash payout (like a bonus), in return for additional obligated active duty service. Changes to the Uniform Services’ retirement system went into effect January 1, 2018. Visit the BRS Resource website at http://militarypay.defense.gov/BlendedRetirement for the latest information.Last Updated: 7/19/23