HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE CIVIL SERVICE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS THIRD SESSION ON H. R. 8065, H. R. 7556, H. R. 6564, H. R. 9191 BILLS PROPOSING TO AMEND CIVIL SERVICE GENERAL RETIREMERT TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1938 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D. C. The committee this day met at 10:30 a. m., Hon. Robert Ramspeck, chairman, presiding, for consideration of the following bills: [H. R. 8065, 75th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To provide for the retirement of certain employees of the United States Government, for the payment of annuities, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, ELIGIBILITY FOR SUPERANNUATION RETIREMENT SECTION 1. All employees to whom this Act applies who shall have attained or shall hereafter attain the age of seventy years and have rendered at least fifteen years of service, computed as prescribed in section 5 of this Act, shall be eligible for retirement on an annuity as provided in section 4 hereof: Provided, That all employees to whom this Act applies who shall have attained or shall hereafter attain the age of sixty-five years and have rendered at least fifteen years of service, computed as prescribed in section 5 of this Act, shall be eligible for retirement on an annuity as provided in section 4 of this Act at the option of the employee, but if such option is not exercised prior to the date upon which the employee would otherwise be eligible for retirement from the service the provisions of the Act with reference to automatic separation shall apply: Provided further, That any employee to whom this Act applies who shall have rendered or shall hereafter render at least thirty years of service computed as prescribed in section 5 of this Act and shall have attained or shall hereafter attain the age of fifty-five years, and who, for reasons not within the control of the employee and not caused by his own misconduct or delinquency, shall become disqualified to perform satisfactorily and efficiently the duties of his position or of any other position of approximately equal compensation to which he might be assigned, shall, upon the request of the head of the department or independent agency of the Government concerned and with the consent of the employee, be retired upon an annuity computed in accordance with section 4 hereof: Provided, horcerer, That each such request for retirement shall be accompanied by a detailed statement of disqualifications, and the head of the department or independent agency concerned shall certify that in his opinion such retirement is in the interest of the service: And provided further, That any employee who has or may hereafter attain the age of sixty years and rendered at least thirty years of service computed as prescribed in section 5 of this Act may retire voluntarily and shall receive an immediate annuity having a value equal to the present worth of a deferred annuity beginning at the age of sixty-five years, computed as prescribed in section 4 hereof: Provided, That employees who under the laws hereby amended were classified in the sixty-two- or sixty-fiveyear retirement-age groups shall be eligible to retire voluntarily after having rendered thirty years or more of service and having attained the age of sixty or sixty-three years, depending upon the retirement-age group in which employed at the date of or prior to approval of this Act, without reduction in the annuity payable in respect to service rendered prior to the effective date of this Act. 1 |