5 U.S.C. § 8421
Annuity supplement
United States · Title 5 — GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES · Status: effective
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- 5 U.S.C. § 8421, Annuity supplement, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/427481
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The amount of the annuity supplement of an annuitant under this section for any month shall be equal to the product of—
The amount under this paragraph for an annuitant is an amount equal to the old-age insurance benefit which would be payable to such annuitant under title II of the Social Security Act (without regard to sections 203, 215(a)(7), and 215(d)(5) of such Act) upon attaining age 62 and filing application therefor, determined as if the annuitant had attained such age and filed application therefor, and were a fully insured individual (as defined in section 214(a) of such Act), on January 1 of the year in which such annuitant’s entitlement to any payment under this section commences, except that the reduction of such old-age insurance benefit under section 202(q) of such Act shall be the maximum applicable for an individual born in the same year as the annuitant. In computing the primary insurance amount under section 215 of such Act for purposes of this paragraph, the number of elapsed years (referred to in section 215(b)(2)(B)(iii) of such Act and used to compute the number of benefit computation years) shall not include years beginning with the year in which such annuitant’s entitlement to any payment under this section commences, and—
for a benefit computation year after age 21 which precedes the separation referred to in subparagraph (B), and during which the individual did not perform a full year of service, the total wages and self-employment income of such annuitant for such year shall be deemed to have been an amount equal to the product of—
a fraction—
The fraction under this paragraph for any annuitant is a fraction—
For the purpose of this subsection—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Federal Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Ethics Reform Act of 1989House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Technical and Miscellaneous Civil Service Amendments Act of 1992House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Homeland Security Act of 2002
- First Responder Fair RETIRE ActHouse: 417–0Senate: no recorded tally