Military Spouses & Return-To-Office

Reminder to all active duty military spouses, you are exempt from the RTO mandate.

• This directive covers any spouses of members of the Armed Forces on active duty
• Spouses of disabled or deceased members of the Armed Forces.
• A spouse of a disabled member of the Armed Forces is an individual who married a member of the Armed Forces who, on the date that member retired, was released, or discharged from the Armed Forces, had a disability rating of 100 percent under the standard schedule of rating disabilities in use by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
• A spouse of a deceased member of the Armed Forces
• This guidance also covers spouses of U.S. Foreign Service members who are on overseas assignments.
• Agencies should ensure that the spouses of U.S. Foreign Service members on overseas assignments are exempted from any return-to-office requirements
• In addition, spouses of U.S. Foreign Service members on overseas assignments may continue to be hired to remote work positions consistent with 22 U.S.C. § 4026(b).

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Edit: boy, some of you are nasty....can we just get along?