Value of Team Work
Effective communication between LIMDU coordinators, doctors, and administrators involved in the LIMDU process is the most important element in the success of returning members to an unrestricted medical status and in having a strong force of personnel.  LIMDU personnel must be monitored from day one.

 TEMADD/TEMDU Guidance

LIMITED DUTY DESCRIPTIONS                  

Limited duty (LIMDU), also known as Temporary Limited Duty (TLD), will be referred as TLD this point forward. 

TLD is a personnel and a medical management tool as described below:

It is a medical management tool allowing patients to understand their medical restricted status and to indicate what the member may or may not do on a daily basis to get well.

It is a medical tool for the Military Treatment Facility (MTF), to keep as a record, a medical evaluation board that placed a member in a medical restricted status

It is a personnel management tool where PSDs place a member in limited duty status (ACC 105) allowing program managers at service headquarters, detailers, and other related administrators to know that a member has a medical restricted status.

It is a personnel management tool allowing managers and administrators to monitor and decide/recommend the next step to a member’s LIMDU case after MTFs complete reevaluations.

Temporary Limited Duty (TLD)

TLD is defined as a documented period of medically restricted duty, in consideration of a patient’s illness, injury, or disease process.  TLD may only be provided as the result of the actions of a Medical Evaluation Board (MEB) properly convened at a Military Treatment Facility (MTF).  TLD is a period when the member reports to their workspace, but during the period the member is excused from the performance of certain aspects of military duties, as defined in their individual TLD write-up.  During TLD, the member undergoes continued care, recovery, and rehabilitation aimed at returning the member to a medically unrestricted duty status.

A member of the U.S. Navy, enlisted or officer, is authorized a maximum of 12 months of TLD, which is equivalent to two periods of TLD, in a career.  Additional TLD is not authorized unless approved by PERS-82 known as a departmental review.

Placement of TLD is most appropriate only for those members for whom a return to medically unrestricted status is anticipated.  A member whose case has been referred to the Physical Evaluation Board (PEB) for disability adjudication will be concurrently placed on TLD pending the PEB outcome.

Permanent Limited Duty (PLD)

PLD is defined as a need for a service member’s skill or experience that justifies the continuance of that service member on active duty in a limited assignment; the service member may be retained on active duty or in active status for a specified period of time.  Each case is individually considered, and the member’s length of service is not controlling in PLD decisions. 

Members with over 20 years of active service shall not be continued on active duty solely to increase their monetary benefits, nor shall they be continued unless their employment is justified as being of value to the naval service.

PERS-82 may, upon a member's request, particularly from a member with over 18 years but less than 20 years of active service, retain unfit to continue naval service members in a PLD status when such retention is in the best interests of the service and consistent with the guidance in paragraph 6003 of SECNAVINST 1850.4E. 

Permanent Limited Duty (PLD) will not be approved when retention in a PLD status would jeopardize the member’s health or safety, or that of others.

The following criteria must be met for consideration

1. Member must be found “UNFIT” by the Physical Evaluation Board (PEB).
2. Unfit member must be able to maintain his or herself in a normal military environment, without adversely affecting his or her health or the health of other members.  The PEB will determine if member is a risk.
3. Unfit member may be retained to complete service obligations for Navy funded education or training (i.e., initial and advanced skill training schools).
   Unfit member may be retained to meet shortages against authorized strength in an enlisted skill, competitive category, designator or specialty, or a military occupational field or specialty, provided they can perform required duties in an authorized billet for that skill.
4. Unfit member may be retained to complete a current tour of duty or to provide continuity in key billets pending relief.
5. Unfit member may be retained for a specified period of time, at the request of a commanding officer of a medical treatment facility, to meet the need for that specific type of condition in a graduate medical education program at a specific MTF that cannot be met at that MTF by other authorized means and is essential to maintaining program accreditation.
6. Unfit member may be retained to reach fleet reserve eligibility if member has over 18 years of active service per U.S. Title 10, Chapter 61. 
7. Member must not be a risk per the PEB.