[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR352.309]

[Page 265-266]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 352--REEMPLOYMENT RIGHTS--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart C--Detail and Transfer of Federal Employees to International 
                              Organizations
 
Sec. 352.309  Retirement, health benefits, and group life insurance.

    (a) Agency and employee action. At the time of consent to the 
transfer of an employee, the agency shall notify the employee in writing 
that it will make agency contributions and he will retain coverage with 
resulting rights and benefits under the retirement, health benefits, and 
group life insurance systems or any of them if employee payments

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are currently deposited in the respective funds. The employee shall 
acknowledge, in writing, receipt of the notice and state whether or not 
he wishes to retain his coverage under the retirement, health benefits, 
and group life insurance systems or any of them by continuing required 
employee payments.
    (b) Agency responsibility. A transferred employee is deemed to 
remain an employee of the agency from which transferred for retirement, 
health benefits, and group life insurance purposes. For retirement and 
group life insurance purposes, the agency is responsible for determining 
the applicable rate of pay in accordance with the provisions of section 
3583 of title 5, United States Code. The agency is also responsible for 
collecting, accounting for, and depositing in the respective funds all 
retirement, health benefits, and group life insurance employee payments 
required to be made for the purpose of protecting the rights of the 
employee so transferred; and for accounting for and depositing in the 
respective funds all agency contributions. The agency shall furnish the 
employee with specific information as to how, when, and where the 
payments are to be submitted.
    (c) Coverage. Employee payments are currently deposited if received 
by the agency before, during, or within 3 months after the end of the 
pay period covered thereby. Failure to deposit the payment currently 
terminates a transferred employee's retirement, health benefits, and 
group life insurance coverage on the last day of the pay period for 
which payments were currently deposited, subject to a 31-day extension 
of group life insurance and health benefits coverage as provided in 
parts 870 and 890 of this chapter and to the conversion benefits 
provided in parts 870 and 890 of this chapter. Coverage so terminated 
may not attach again before the employee actually enters on duty on his 
first day in a pay status in an agency. However, terminated civil 
service retirement, health benefits, and group life insurance coverage 
shall be reinstated retroactively when, in the judgment of OPM, the 
failure to make the required current deposit was due to circumstances 
beyond the control of the employee and the required payments were 
deposited at the first opportunity. Coverage under a system other than 
the civil service retirement system shall be reinstated retroactively if 
the agency which administers the retirement system determines that the 
failure to make the required current deposit was due to circumstances 
beyond the control of the employee and the required payments were 
deposited at the first opportunity.