---
title: "Federal Time Credit Application Guide"
citation: "BOP FTC Application Guide (Oct. 16, 2025)"
authority_id: "AUTH-BOP-FTC-APPLICATION-GUIDE-2025"
authority_type: "policy"
jurisdiction: "federal_nationwide"
precedential_status: "nonbinding_agency_guidance"
official_url: "https://www.bop.gov/news/20251016-federal-time-credit-application-guide.jsp"
url: "https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/authorities/AUTH-BOP-FTC-APPLICATION-GUIDE-2025/"
legal_review: "2026-08-25"
links_checked: "2026-10-15"
links_available: 0
links_checked_count: 1
license: "CC BY 4.0"
---

# Federal Time Credit Application Guide

## Holding or rule used

Current public BOP operational guidance for lawful time-credit application.

## Material limitation

Use only for the bounded proposition and limitations in the linked canonical modules. Individual custody, computation, program, placement, administrative, circuit, and remedy facts remain separate.

## Official source and pinpoints

BOP FTC Application Guide (Oct. 16, 2025), guide and linked implementation materials: <https://www.bop.gov/news/20251016-federal-time-credit-application-guide.jsp>


## Used in

- [Prerelease Custody, Residential Reentry, Home Confinement, and the CARES Act](https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/modules/80-sentence-execution-and-bop/prerelease-custody-home-confinement-and-cares-act.md)