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PUBLIC LAW 89-301-OCT. 29, 1965

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employment, without a break in service or after a separation of three days or less, following service under an appointment without time limitation; (3) an alien employee who occupies a position outside the several States, the District of Columbia, and the Canal Zone; (4) an officer or employee Who is subject to the Civil Service Retirement Act, as amended, or any other retirement law or ^o Stat. 743. retirement system applicable to Federal officers or employees or note^^^ ^^' ^ members of the uniformed services, and who, at the time of separation from the service, has fulfilled the requirements for immediate annuity under any such law or system; (5) an officer or employee who, at the time of separation from the service, is receiving compensation under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, as amended, except one receiving this ^^ ^*^*- ^^^j compensation concurrently with salary or on account of the death ^^5 usVr^s^uiote. of another person; (6) an officer or employee who, at the time of separation from the service, is entitled to receive other severance pay from the Oovernment; (7) officers and employees of the Tennessee Valley Authority; and (8) such other officers or employees as may be excluded by rules and regulations of the President or of such officer or agency as he may designate. (c) An officer or employee to whom this section applies who is involuntarily separated from the service, on or after the effective date of this section, not by removal for cause on charges of misconduct, delinquency, or inefficiency, shall, under rules and regulations prescribed by the President or such officer or agency as he may designate, be paid severance pay in regular pay periods by the department, independent establishment, corporation, or other governmental unit, from which separated. (d) Severance pay shall consist of two elements, a basic severance computation. allowance and an age adjustment allowance. The basic severance allowance shall be computed on the basis of one week's basic compensation at the rate received immediately before separation for each year of civilian service up to and including ten years for which severance pay has not been received under this or any other authority and two weeks' basic compensation at such rate for each year of civilian service beyond ten years for which severance pay has not been received under this or any other authority. The age adjustment allowance shall be computed on the basis of 10 per centum of the total basic severance allowance for each year by which the age of the recipient exceeds forty years at the time of separation. Total severance pay received under this section shall not exceed one year's pay at the rate received immediately before separation. (e) An officer or employee may be paid severance pay only after Twelve months having been employed currently for a continuous period of at least ''^'i"!'"^'"®" • twelve months. (f) If an officer or employee is reemployed by the Federal Govern- Remployment, ment or the municipal government of the District of Columbia before ^«^™i"3*i°" " the expiration of the period covered by payments of severance pay, the payments shall be discontinued beginning with the date of reemployment and the service represented by the unexpired portion of the period shall be recredited to the officer or employee for use in any subsequent computations of severance pay. For the purposes of subsection (e), reemployment which causes severance pay to be discontinued shall be considered as employment continuous with that serving as the basis for the severance pay.

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