5 CFR 838.735
§ 838.735 Cost-of-living adjustments.
United States · 5 CFR — Administrative Personnel · Status: effective
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- 5 CFR 838.735, § 838.735 Cost-of-living adjustments, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/8048
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(a) OPM applies cost-of-living adjustments to all former spouse survivor annuities in pay status at the time of the adjustment and in the amount provided by Federal statute.
(b) OPM will not honor provisions of a court order that alters the time or amount of cost-of-living adjustments or that attempts to prevent OPM from applying cost-of-living adjustments to a former spouse survivor annuity in pay status.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.