FPM Volume 3 - Fiscal Policies

Volume 3 of the Marine Corps Finance Policy Manual, titled Fiscal Policies. Snapshot pulled 2026-09-14, 203 pages across 21 chapters and two appendices.

Scope

Fiscal administration for Marine Corps activities. Funding, obligations, disbursing-adjacent unit responsibilities, and audit-facing fiscal controls. Cited alongside DODFMR Volume 5 on disbursing items.

Dating, read this before citing a paragraph

Like Volume 2, this volume is a rolling compilation rather than a single-dated edition. Each chapter carries its own revision date and the spread runs more than seven years. Name the chapter and its date when citing, because the volume date alone says nothing about whether a paragraph moved.

September 2026 change

One paragraph moved in the 14 September 2026 pull. Chapter 8 paragraph 080409, Uniformed Services Savings Deposit Program requirements.

The added material is a disbursing office procedure for processing a sister service member's deposit. It carries a legacy line of accounting table for Air Force, Army, and Navy submissions, a ticket route to the Cleveland finance center, regional disbursing office fiscal contacts, and a caution about reading another service's leave and earnings statement. It does not show a combat zone tax exclusion start date, so confirm the date with the member.

The underlying program rules did not move. A member earns 10 percent annually, compounded quarterly, on deposits capped at 10,000 dollars, becomes eligible after 30 consecutive days or one day in each of three consecutive months in an eligible area while drawing the combat zone tax exclusion, and stops being eligible on departing the qualifying assignment. Deposits come from unallotted current pay and allowances. Advance pay and permanent change of station or temporary duty travel allowances cannot be deposited.

The submission procedure includes a shared passcode and ticket parameters. Those stay in the source document. This manual is marked for the DoD community only and the portal is public.

Access notes

The Finance Policy Manual is published by the HQMC Finance Branch (RFF) with distribution marked DoD community only. No public marines.mil URL exists. Pull the working copy through the HQMC RFF portal or the servicing finance office. This entry intentionally carries no externalUrl so citation chips route here instead of hitting an authentication wall.