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A. Termination Indemnity

Staff members whose appointments are terminated by the Secretary-General because of abolition of posts or reduction of staff, poor health or incapacitation for further service, unsatisfactory service or agreed termination shall receive an indemnity in accordance with the following table.

For staff in the Professional and higher categories and in the Field Service category, months of gross salary less staff assessment, where applicable.

For staff in the General Service and related categories, months of pensionable remuneration less staff assessment, where applicable.

Completed years of service	Temporary appointments exceeding six month	Fixed-term appointments	Continuing appointments
Less than 1	One week for each month of uncompleted service subject to a minimum of six weeks' and a maximum of three month's indemnity pay	One week for each month of uncompleted service subject to a minimum of six weeks' and a maximum of three month's indemnity pay	Not applicable
1	ditto	ditto	Not applicable
2	ditto	ditto	3
3	ditto	ditto	3
4	ditto	ditto	4
5	ditto	ditto	5
6	ditto	3	6
7	ditto	5	7
8	ditto	7	8
9	Not applicable	9	9
10		9.5	9.5
11		10	10
12		10.5	10.5
13		11	11
14		11.5	11.5
15 or more		12	12

N.B. Please refer to Annex III of the Staff Rules 100 series for complete details.

B. Repatriation Grant.

The repatriation grant shall be payable to staff members whom the Organization is obligated to repatriate. The repatriation grant shall not, however, be paid to a staff member who is summarily dismissed, who abandons his or her post, who was residing at the time of separation in his or her country, or who cannot give evidence of actual relocation on separation from service. Evidence of relocation away from the country of the last duty station of the staff member must be provided before the grant is paid. However, evidence of relocation shall not be required for payment of the grant with respect to qualifying service accrued prior to 1 July 1979. The amount of the grant shall vary with the length of service with the United Nations. The maximum rates payable shall be as follows:

Years of continuous service away from home country	Staff member with a spouse or dependent child at time of separation	Staff member with neither a spouse nor a dependent child at time of separation

	Professional and higher categories	General Service category

For staff in the Professional and higher categories and in the Field Service category, weeks of gross salary, less staff assessment, where applicable

For staff in the General Service category, weeks of pensionable remuneration, less staff assessment, where applicable

1	4	3	2
2	8	5	4
3	10	6	5
4	12	7	6
5	14	8	7
6	16	9	8
7	18	10	9
8	20	11	10
9	22	13	11
10	24	14	12
11	26	15	13
12 or more	28	16	14

C. Death Grant.

In the case of death of a staff member, the date on which entitlement to salary, allowances and benefits shall be the date of death, unless there is a surviving spouse or dependent child. In this event, the date shall be determined in accordance with the following schedule.

Completed years of service in the Secretariat (as defined in rule 9.8)	Months of extension beyond date of death
3 or less	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
8	8
9 or more	9

N.B. For full details, please refer to rule 109.10.