5 U.S.C. § 8433
Benefits and election of benefits
United States · Title 5 — GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES · Status: effective
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- 5 U.S.C. § 8433, Benefits and election of benefits, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/427494
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Subject to section 8435 of this title, any employee or Member who separates from Government employment is entitled and may elect to withdraw from the Thrift Savings Fund the balance of the employee’s or Member’s account as—
Notwithstanding section 8424(d), if an employee, Member, former employee, or former Member dies and has designated as sole or partial beneficiary his or her spouse at the time of death, or, if an employee, Member, former employee, or former Member, dies with no designated beneficiary and is survived by a spouse, the spouse may maintain the portion of the employee’s or Member’s account to which the spouse is entitled in accordance with the following terms:
An employee or Member may apply, before separation, to the Board for permission to withdraw an amount from the employee’s or Member’s account based upon—
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
- A bill making technical corrections relating to the Federal Employees' Retirement System, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Thrift Savings Plan Technical Amendments Act of 1990House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993House: 304–100Senate: no recorded tally
- Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994
- Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000
- Thrift Savings Plan Open Elections Act of 2004House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- To protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products, to amend title 5, United States Code, to make certain modifications in the Thrift Savings Plan, the Civil Service Retirement System, and the Federal Employees' Retirement System, and for other purposes.
- TSP Modernization Act of 2017House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally