Volume 86
Public Law 92–529
To amend chapter 87 of title a. United States Code, to waive employee deductions for Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance purposes during a period of erroneous removal or suspension.
Approved October 21, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend chapter 87 of title a. United States Code, to waive employee deductions for Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance purposes during a period of erroneous removal or suspension.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 8706 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
“(f) If the insurance of an employee stops because of separation from the service or suspension without pay, and the separation or suspension is thereafter officially found to have been erroneous, the employee is deemed to have been insured during the period of erroneous separation or suspension. Deductions otherwise required by section 8707 of this chapter shall not be withheld from any backpay awarded for the period of separation or suspension unless death or accidental dismemberment of the employee occurs during such period.”
Approved October 21, 1972.