[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: 5CFR839.802]

[Page 255]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED)
 
PART 839_CORRECTION OF RETIREMENT COVERAGE ERRORS UNDER THE FEDERAL ERRONEOUS 
 
       Subpart H_Adjusting Retirement Deductions and Contributions
 
Sec.  839.802  If I was in CSRS during my qualifying retirement coverage 

error, paid into the Fund more than I would have paid as a CSRS Offset, Social 

          Security-Only, or FERS employee, and end up retroactively in 

          one of those retirement plans, will I get a refund of the 

          excess I had withheld from my pay?

    CSRS Offset and FERS require employees to pay Social Security taxes 
in addition to retirement deductions. When you are retroactively changed 
under the FERCCA to CSRS Offset, FERS, or Social Security-Only, the 
deductions you paid in under CSRS will be used to pay both the amounts 
required for retirement deductions under CSRS Offset or FERS, as 
applicable to you, and also the Social Security taxes that you would 
have paid had you been in CSRS-Offset, FERS, or Social Security-Only.