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This memorandum provides policies and guidance for U.S. Repatriation Program recipients on emergency repatriation planning, training, and exercises (PTE), including agency roles and responsibilities and allowable activities and costs.
The U.S. Repatriation Program was established in 1935 under Section 1113 of the Social Security Act to provide temporary assistance to private U.S. citizens and their dependents identified by the Department of State (DOS) as having returned from a foreign country to the United States because of destitution, illness, war, threat of war, or a similar crisis, and are without available resources.