Nonforeign Area Cost-of-Living Allowance Rates - Puerto Rico and Hawaii County (US Office of Personnel Management Regulation) (OPM) (2018 Edition)

Nonforeign Area Cost-of-Living Allowance Rates - Puerto Rico and Hawaii County (US Office of Personnel Management Regulation) (OPM) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Nonforeign Area Cost-of-Living Allowance Rates - Puerto Rico and Hawaii County (US Office of Personnel Management Regulation) (OPM) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is changing the cost-of-living allowance (COLA) rates received by certain white-collar Federal and U. S. Postal Service employees in Puerto Rico and Hawaii County, HI. The changes are the result of interim adjustments OPM calculated based on relative Consumer Price Index differences between the cost-of-living allowance areas and the Washington, DC, area. OPM is also making an additional one-time adjustment to the Puerto Rico COLA rate based on the impact of the new sales tax in Puerto Rico. This regulation increases the COLA rate for Puerto Rico to 13 percent and the COLA rate for Hawaii County, HI, to 18 percent. This book contains: - The complete text of the Nonforeign Area Cost-of-Living Allowance Rates - Puerto Rico and Hawaii County (US Office of Personnel Management Regulation) (OPM) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section