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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-824/annex/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-824/annex/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2017/824",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (CFSP) 2017/824 of 15 May 2017 concerning the Staff Regulations of the European Union Satellite Centre",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-824",
  "path": "annex/article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Family and social allowances",
  "text": "1. General rules\nThe allowances provided for under this Article and similar allowances to which a married couple, or an unmarried staff member, are entitled from another source, shall not be cumulative.\nAny staff member, who is in receipt of, or whose spouse, dependant or registered partner is in receipt of, or entitled to, a national or international allowance similar to those provided for under this Article, from other sources, is to inform the SATCEN's Administration Division accordingly, in order that a corresponding reduction be made in the allowances granted to him by the SATCEN.\nAny staff member who knowingly misinforms, or fails to inform, the SATCEN's Administration of a relevant fact and in consequence receives an allowance to which he is not entitled or an amount higher than that to which he is entitled, infringes this article and as a consequence, will be required to refund any amount so received and may also be liable to disciplinary measures.\nWhere entitlement to allowances commences after the date of entering the service, the Staff member shall receive them from the first day of the month in which such entitlement commences. On cessation of such entitlement, the staff member shall receive the sum due up to the last day of the month in which entitlement ceases.\nThe Administration of the SATCEN shall be entitled to request any official documents or supporting evidence that it deems necessary to establish a right to any allowance or to permit its calculation.\n2. Household allowance\n(a) A household allowance shall be granted and paid monthly to any staff member who:\n(i) is married;\n(ii) is widowed, divorced, legally separated or single and has at least one dependant within the meaning of Annex III to these Staff Regulations;\n(iii) is registered as a stable non-marital partner, provided that:\nthe couple produce a legal document recognised as such from a competent authority of a Member State, acknowledging their status as non-marital partners;\nneither partner is in a marital relationship or in another non-marital relationship;\nthe partners are not related in any of the following ways: parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece, son-in-law, daughter-in-law.\n(b) That allowance shall be equal to 6 % of net basic salary and shall not be lower than the amount payable to staff members in grade B3, step 1.\n(c) In the case of:\n(i) a married staff member who has no dependants but whose spouse is gainfully employed, or\n(ii) a staff member who is registered as a stable non-marital partner, as defined in point (a) and who has no dependants, but whose partner is gainfully employed,\nthe allowance shall be the difference between the net basic salary for grade B3, step 1 plus the allowance to which the staff member would be entitled in theory, and the earned income of the spouse or registered partner. If the latter amount is equal to or greater than the former, no allowance shall be payable.\nThe allowance shall not be paid to a staff member whose spouse or registered partner is a staff member of the SATCEN or a member of a Coordinated Organisation and who has a higher basic salary than the staff member.\n3. Children's and other dependants' allowance\n(a) A children's and other dependants' allowance shall be granted and paid monthly to any staff member who mainly and continuously maintains children or other dependants as defined in Annex III.\n(b) The allowance shall be a fixed amount for each dependant, set each year in the scales approved by the Board.\n(c) Where both spouses and registered partners work for the SATCEN or a Coordinated Organisation, the allowance shall be paid to whichever of them is in receipt of a household allowance or equivalent.\n(d) The definitions and the conditions under which the allowance is granted are set out in Annex III.\n4. Education allowance\n(a) An education allowance shall be granted and paid monthly to any staff member who is entitled to household allowance, and whose dependent child(ren), as defined in Annex III is/are at least three years old, and is/are in regular full-time attendance at kindergarten, primary, secondary or higher education.\n(b) The allowance shall be equal to twice the amount of the dependant child's allowance, and shall be payable for each child.\n(c) The staff member concerned shall provide to the SATCEN's Administration all supporting evidence at the beginning of each school year.\n5. Disabled children's and other dependants' allowance\n(a) A disabled children's and other dependants' allowance shall be granted and paid monthly for disabled children or dependants to any staff member who is primarily and continuously responsible for their care. The child or dependant must fulfil the criteria and conditions set out in Annex III.\n(b) The details of allocation and payment of the allowance are given in Annex IV.\n6. Rent allowance\n(a) A rent allowance shall be paid monthly to staff members of grades B, C, A1 and A2 who are tenants or sub-tenants of accommodation and who pay a rent — excluding service charges considered to be the liability of the tenant in the country of residence — that exceeds a specified proportion of their emoluments.\n(b) The method of calculating the allowance is set out in Annex V.\n(c) Staff members in receipt of rent allowance shall inform the Head of Administration immediately of any change in their circumstances that could affect their eligibility or the amount of the allowance.\n7. Transport allowance\nSince the duty station is remote from residential areas and the SATCEN is located in a military base which is not served by public transport, staff members who not live in the military base where the SATCEN is located shall receive a flat-rate monthly transport allowance. The amount of the allowance shall be set by the Director at the beginning of each calendar year.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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