§ 4051. Voluntary retirement

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1980

   Pub. L. 96–465 title I § 811 · 94 Stat. 2071

   Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 4051

   Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 811, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2112

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 811, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2112

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 811. Voluntary Retirement.— Any participant who is at least 50 years of age and has 20 years of creditable service, including at least 5 years of service credit toward retirement under the System (excluding military and naval service), may on his or her own application and with the consent of the Secretary be retired from the Service and receive retirement benefits in accordance with section 806.

2. 1988

   Pub. L. 100–238 title II § 216 · 101 Stat. 1744

   Inserted · 22 U.S.C. § 4051

   Pub. L. 100–238 inserted last two sentences relating to withholding consent to retirement and to certain participants who voluntarily separate from the Service before completing 5 years in the System

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 100–238 inserted last two sentences relating to withholding consent to retirement and to certain participants who voluntarily separate from the Service before completing 5 years in the System.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 216. VOLUNTARY RETIREMENT. Section 811 of chapter 8 (22 U.S.C. 4051) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: “The Secretary shall withhold consent for retirement under this section by any participant who has not been a member of the Service for 5 years. Any participant who voluntarily separates from the Service before completing 5 years in the System and who, on the date of separation, would be eligible for an annuity, based on a voluntary separation, under section 8336 or 8338 of title 5, United States Code, if the participant had been covered under the Civil Service Retirement System rather than subject to this chapter while a member of the Service, may receive an annuity under section 8336 or 8338, notwithstanding section 8333(b) of title 5, United States Code, if all contributions transferred to the Fund under section 805(c)(1) of this Act, as well as all contributions withheld from the participant’s pay or contributed by the employer, and deposited into the Fund during the period he or she was subject to this chapter, including interest on these amounts, are transferred to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund effective on the date the participant separates from the Service.”.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 100–238 effective 90 days after Jan. 8, 1988, see section 261(a) of Pub. L. 100–238, set out as a note under section 4054 of this title.

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