[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR837.102]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED)
 
PART 837_REEMPLOYMENT OF ANNUITANTS--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec.  837.102  Definitions.

    Actual service means the period of time during which an annuitant is 
reemployed, excluding periods of separation and non-pay status.

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    Annuitant means a former employee or Member who is receiving, or 
meets the legal requirements and has filed claim for, annuity under 
either CSRS or FERS based on his or her service.
    Another retirement system or ``other retirement system'' means a 
program created by Federal or District of Columbia statute or regulation 
and administered by an agency of the Federal Government or District of 
Columbia that provides retirement and/or death benefits to Federal or 
District of Columbia employees whose employment would otherwise be 
subject to the provisions of CSRS or FERS, or that credits service in 
the computation of benefits that would otherwise be credited in the 
computation of a CSRS or FERS benefit, or that provides a death benefit 
when a death benefit is payable from CSRS or FERS.
    CSRS means the Civil Service Retirement System, as described in 
subchapter III of chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code.
    CSRS annuitant means an annuitant retired under CSRS.
    CSRS-Offset service means service by a reemployed CSRS annuitant 
that is subject to the OASDI tax by operation of section 101 of Public 
Law 98-21. It does not include any service performed before January 1, 
1984.
    CSRS-Offset wages means basic pay, as defined under 5 U.S.C. 
8331(3), of an employee or Member performing CSRS-Offset service, but 
not to exceed the contribution and benefit base for the calendar year 
involved.
    Continuous service means reemployment without a period of separation 
from service, or conversion to intermittent status, of more than 3 days.
    Contribution and benefit base means the contribution and benefit 
base in effect with respect to the period involved, as determined under 
section 230 of the Social Security Act.
    FEC means Federal Employees Compensation, that is, benefits paid on 
the basis of a work-related disease or injury under the provisions of 
chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, but does not include a 
scheduled award under the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 8107, or medical 
services under 5 U.S.C. 8103.
    FERS means the Federal Employees Retirement System, as described in 
chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code.
    FERS annuitant means an annuitant who retired under FERS, or a 
reemployed CSRS annuitant whose election of FERS coverage under part 846 
of this chapter is effective on or after January 8, 1988.
    Full-time equivalent to part-time service means the amount of actual 
service that would result if the total hours worked on a part-time basis 
had been performed on a full-time basis, and the remaining portion of 
the period of reemployment was in a non-pay status.
    Full-time service means actual service in which the reemployed 
annuitant is scheduled to work the number of hours and days required by 
the administrative workweek for his or her grade or class (normally 40 
hours).
    Fund means the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund as 
described at 5 U.S.C. 8348.
    Intermittent service means any actual service performed on a less 
than full-time basis with no prescheduled regular tour of duty.
    Lump-sum credit has the same meaning as the term is defined at 
section 8401(19) or section 8331(8) of title 5, United States Code, as 
may be applicable under the circumstances.
    OASDI tax means, with respect to Federal wages, the Old Age, 
Survivors, and Disability Insurance tax imposed under section 3101(a) of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
    Part-time service means actual service performed on a less than 
full-time basis under a pre-scheduled regular tour of duty.
    Pay means the basic pay of the position to which the reemployed 
annuitant is appointed, prior to reduction for retirement contributions 
and annuity offset, and excludes any other benefits or compensation the 
reemployed annuitant receives, such as benefits authorized under the 
provisions of chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code.
    Reemployed means reemployed in an appointive or elective position 
with the Federal Government, or reemployed in an appointive or elective 
position with the District of Columbia (when the annuitant was first 
employed subject to CSRS by the District of Columbia before October 1, 
1987, or is an employee

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of the government of the District of Columbia not excluded from CSRS 
under Sec.  831.201(g) or Sec.  831.201(i) of this chapter, or is an 
employee of the government of the District of Columbia who is deemed to 
be a Federal employee for FERS purposes under Sec.  842.107 or Sec.  
842.108 of this chapter), whether the position is subject to CSRS, FERS, 
or another retirement system, but does not include appointment as a 
Governor of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service, 
or reemployment under the provisions of law that exclude offset of pay 
by annuity, that is, sections 8344(i), (j), or (k), or 8468(f), (g), or 
(h) of title 5, United States Code.
    Retired Member means a former Member of Congress, as defined by 5 
U.S.C. 2106, who has met the requirements for Member retirement as 
specified at sections 8336(g), 8337(a), 8338(b), 8412, 8413, and 8451(b) 
of title 5, United States Code, and who has filed claim therefor.
    Suspension, in regard to payment of annuity, means that payment of 
annuity stops but annuitant status continues.
    Termination in regard to payment of annuity, means that both payment 
of annuity and annuitant status cease.

[58 FR 48266, Sept. 15, 1993, as amended at 62 FR 50996, Sept. 30, 1997; 
64 FR 15288, Mar. 31, 1999]