WASHINGTON — Looking for John A. Boehner? Try the Longworth House Office Building.

The former House speaker, whose resignation from Congress became effective over the weekend, is taking advantage of little-known perks and privileges taxpayers provide by law to those vacating the chamber’s highest office. Boehner is setting up a government-funded office that may have as many as three aides with salaries of more than $100,000 each.

The Ohio Republican can maintain the outpost for up to five years, with taxpayers footing the bill for office operations, franked mail and personnel costs. Funding for former speakers has been in place since 1970, when John W. McCormack became the first speaker to retire to private life.

Jennifer Hing, communications director for the House Appropriations Committee, said it was “too early to speculate” whether an upcoming omnibus spending bill will include a funding request for Boehner’s post-speakership office.

“No statutory restrictions exist on the cost, type or location of a former speaker’s office,” wrote Matthew E. Glassman in a Congressional Research Service report from May. Boehner could pay his three aides salaries of up to $158,000, $133,000 and $116,000 for 2015, Glassman noted.

The taxpayer-funded office cannot be used for political purposes.