Travel Entitlements on Retirement

Overview

The handbook records retirement travel for an eligible officer and family from the last duty station to the home station or another place of permanent settlement. It can include passenger travel, personal effects, one eligible private conveyance and CTG, broadly on permanent-transfer scales and on a cash claim basis.

What the handbook says

The source covers superannuation, qualifying premature retirement, release, transfer to reserve, invalidment and other listed exits. The officer and family must travel on a cash-TA basis; a railway warrant is not to be used for the retirement journey. Claims follow the permanent-duty-move process and require countersignature by the immediate superior administrative authority where the officer was otherwise their own controlling officer.

Retirement travel is generally to be used within one year. The source allows family and baggage to precede the officer by up to two months or follow within the stated lien, subject to competent-authority extension in an individual case.

What this means

Retirement TA is not automatically identical for every form of separation. First confirm that the exit category qualifies. Then identify the permanent settlement place, actual move date, family and baggage timing, change of residence, and the evidence for each cost.

Who this applies to

• Qualifying premature retirement is treated at par with normal retirement for the travel benefits described by the source.
• The source excludes Rule 200 retirement TA for premature or voluntary retirement for permanent absorption in a Central Government undertaking.
• Retirement travel is on cash TA, not railway warrant.
• No retirement TA advance is admissible under the cited source.
• Family, next-of-kin and death-in-service cases follow separate conditions and should not be inferred from the standard retirement rule.

Rates and dates

From 6 January 2022, the source records full retirement CTG at 80% of the last month's basic pay where a change of residence actually occurs, without the earlier 20-kilometre condition. It records 100% for settlement to or from the named island territories. NPA and MSP are excluded from CTG basic pay.

What you may need

• retirement, release or qualifying separation order;
• Part II order recording retirement or release and post-retirement address;
• passenger tickets and actual-fare evidence;
• receipts and consignment records for personal effects and private conveyance;
• prescribed change-of-residence self-declaration for CTG; and
• countersigned retirement claim prepared as a permanent-duty claim.

Authorities and source references

• Rules 200-A, 202, 204 and 207(B), Travel Regulations
• GoI, MoD letter No. 12630/Mov C/242/D(Mov)/2017, 15 September 2017
• GoI, MoF, DoE OM No. 19030/1/2017-E.IV, 6 January 2022
• CGDA letter No. AT/IV/039, 4 August 1980
• CGDA letter No. AT/IV/4505-II, 19 January 1987

Related guidance

• Permanent Duty Move Entitlements
• Composite Transfer Grant
• Preparing Travelling Allowance Claims
• Travelling Allowance Advances and Claim Time Limits

About this guidance

This is a plain-language summary for general information. It is not an official order or an authority for a claim. Confirm the applicable order and your individual eligibility with the competent authority or PCDA(O) before acting.