10 U.S.C. § 1452
Reduction in retired pay
United States · Title 10 — ARMED FORCES · Status: effective
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- 10 U.S.C. § 1452, Reduction in retired pay, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/433408
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Except as provided in subsection (b), the retired pay, other than retired pay received as a lump sum under section 1415(b)(1)(A) of this title, of a participant in the Plan who is providing spouse coverage (as described in paragraph (5)) shall be reduced as follows:
If the annuity coverage being provided is a standard annuity, the reduction shall be as follows:
For purposes of clauses (i) and (ii), the alternative reduction amounts are the following:
If the annuity coverage being provided is a reserve-component annuity, the reduction shall be in whichever of the following amounts is more favorable to that person:
For the purposes of paragraph (1), a participant in the Plan who is providing spouse coverage is a participant who—
For the purposes of this subsection, a participant in the Plan who is providing child-only coverage is a participant who has a dependent child and who—
The retired pay, other than retired pay received as a lump sum under section 1415(b)(1)(A) of this title, of a person who has elected to provide an annuity to a person designated by him under section 1450(a)(5) of this title shall be reduced as follows:
The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe in regulations premiums which a participant making an election under section 1448(b)(1)(G) of this title shall be required to pay for participating in the Plan pursuant to that election. The total amount of the premiums to be paid by a participant under the regulations shall be equal to the sum of the following:
Paragraph (1) does not apply—
A person described in paragraph (1) who discontinued participation in the Plan may elect to participate again in the Plan if—
Effective October 1, 2008, no reduction may be made under this section in the retired pay of a participant in the Plan for any month after the later of—
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. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- An Act to amend title 10, United States Code, to make certain changes in the Survivor Benefit Plan provided for under subchapter II of chapter 73 of title 10, United States Code, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Uniformed Services Survivors' Benefits Amendments of 1978House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to remove certain inequities in the Survivor Benefit Plan provided for under chapter 73 of such title, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Defense Officer Personnel Management Act Technical Corrections ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Military Retirement Reform Act of 1986House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to make technical corrections in provisions of law enacted by the Military Retirement Reform Act of 1986.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991House: no recorded tallySenate: 91–8
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998
- Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000
- John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007House: 398–23Senate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018