Volume 72
Public Law 85–772
To amend the Civil Service Retirement Act with respect to annuities of survivors of employees who are elected as Members of Congress.
Approved August 27, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Civil Service Retirement Act with respect to annuities of survivors of employees who are elected as Members of Congress.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
section 6 (f) of the Civil Service Retirement Act is amended by striking out the words “Member service” in the last sentence and inserting in lieu thereof “civilian service”.
Section 10 (c) of such Act is amended by striking out “If an
employee dies after completing at least five years of civilian service, or a Member dies after completing at least five years of Member service”, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “If an employee or a Member dies after completing at least five years of civilian service”.
Section 10 (d) of such Act is amended by striking out “If an employee dies after completing five years of civilian service or a Member dies after completing five years of Member service” and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “If an employee or a Member dies after completing at least five years of civilian service”.
Section 4 of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof
a new subsection as follows:
“(h) For purposes of survivor annuity, deposits authorized by subsections (c) and (d) may also be made by the survivor of an employee or Member.”
The amendments made by this section shall take effect as of
Effective date.
March 1, 1958.
Sec. 2.
In the administration of the Civil Service Retirement
George M. Fay.
Act, George Morris Fay shall be considered to have retired for disability under the provisions of such Act on May 31, 1957, the date of his separation from service as an employee of the United States Senate, to have elected a reduced annuity, and to have designated his wife, Dorothy D. Fay, to receive an annuity after his death equal to 50 per centum of the annuity which he would have received upon such retirement in the absence of such election.
No annuity shall be payable under this section—
until there shall have been repaid to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund the amount of any lump-sum benefit heretofore paid on account of the death of the said George Morris Fay, or
for any period prior to the first day of the month in which this Act is enacted.
Approved August 27, 1958.