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Retirement Benefits: Modification of Civil Service Retirement Benefits for Part-Time Work

PEMD-86-2 Published: Jan 09, 1986. Publicly Released: Jan 09, 1986.
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GAO reviewed the current retirement rules used for calculating civil service benefits for federal employees and developed a modification to bring retirement benefits in line with work actually performed during a career. A similar provision has been included in the proposed Civil Service Pension Reform Act covering employees hired after 1983.

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Matter for Congressional Consideration

Matter Status Comments
Since the provisions in S. 1527 to implement the modification do not cover the large majority of federal employees, Congress may wish to consider the need to make a similar modification covering employees who were hired before 1984.
Closed – Implemented
A similar modification was included in the Federal Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986, which passed on June 6, 1986. Federal employees remaining under the Civil Service Retirement System were covered by a modification included under the Budget Reconciliation Act, passed on April 7, 1986.

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