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[CITE: 5USC8412]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                   Subpart G--Insurance and Annuities
 
            CHAPTER 84--FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM
 
                      SUBCHAPTER II--BASIC ANNUITY
 
Sec. 8412. Immediate retirement

    (a) An employee or Member who is separated from the service after 
attaining the applicable minimum retirement age under subsection (h) and 
completing 30 years of service is entitled to an annuity.
    (b) An employee or Member who is separated from the service after 
becoming 60 years of age and completing 20 years of service is entitled 
to an annuity.
    (c) An employee or Member who is separated from the service after 
becoming 62 years of age and completing 5 years of service is entitled 
to an annuity.
    (d) An employee who is separated from the service, except by removal 
for cause on charges of misconduct or delinquency--
        (1) after completing 25 years of service as a law enforcement 
    officer, member of the Capitol Police or Supreme Court Police, 
    firefighter, or nuclear materials courier, or any combination of 
    such service totaling at least 25 years, or
        (2) after becoming 50 years of age and completing 20 years of 
    service as a law enforcement officer, member of the Capitol Police 
    or Supreme Court Police, firefighter, or nuclear materials courier, 
    or any combination of such service totaling at least 20 years,

is entitled to an annuity.
    (e) An employee who is separated from the service, except by removal 
for cause on charges of misconduct or delinquency--
        (1) after completing 25 years of service as an air traffic 
    controller, or
        (2) after becoming 50 years of age and completing 20 years of 
    service as an air traffic controller,

is entitled to an annuity.
    (f) A Member who is separated from the service, except by 
resignation or expulsion--
        (1) after completing 25 years of service, or
        (2) after becoming 50 years of age and completing 20 years of 
    service,

is entitled to an annuity.
    (g)(1) An employee or Member who is separated from the service after 
attaining the applicable minimum retirement age under subsection (h) and 
completing 10 years of service is entitled to an annuity. This 
subsection shall not apply to an employee or Member who is entitled to 
an annuity under any other provision of this section.
    (2) An employee or Member entitled to an annuity under this 
subsection may defer the commencement of such annuity by written 
election. The date to which the commencement of the annuity is deferred 
may not precede the 31st day after the date of filing the election, and 
must precede the date on which the employee or Member becomes 62 years 
of age.
    (3) The Office shall prescribe regulations under which an election 
under paragraph (2) shall be made.
    (h)(1) The applicable minimum retirement age under this subsection 
is--
        (A) for an individual whose date of birth is before January 1, 
    1948, 55 years of age;
        (B) for an individual whose date of birth is after December 31, 
    1947, and before January 1, 1953, 55 years of age plus the number of 
    months in the age increase factor determined under paragraph (2)(A);
        (C) for an individual whose date of birth is after December 31, 
    1952, and before January 1, 1965, 56 years of age;
        (D) for an individual whose date of birth is after December 31, 
    1964, and before January 1, 1970, 56 years of age plus the number of 
    months in the age increase factor determined under paragraph (2)(B); 
    and
        (E) for an individual whose date of birth is after December 31, 
    1969, 57 years of age.

    (2)(A) For an individual whose date of birth occurs during the 5-
year period consisting of calendar years 1948 through 1952, the age 
increase factor shall be equal to two-twelfths times the number of 
months in the period beginning with January 1948 and ending with 
December of the year in which the date of birth occurs.
    (B) For an individual whose date of birth occurs during the 5-year 
period consisting of calendar years 1965 through 1969, the age increase 
factor shall be equal to two-twelfths times the number of months in the 
period beginning with January 1965 and ending with December of the year 
in which the date of birth occurs.

(Added Pub. L. 99-335, title I, Sec. 101(a), June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 
524; amended Pub. L. 99-556, title I, Sec. 105(a), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 
Stat. 3131; Pub. L. 101-428, Sec. 3(a), Oct. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 929; 
Pub. L. 105-261, div. C, title XXXI, Sec. 3154(g), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 
Stat. 2255; Pub. L. 106-553, Sec. 1(a)(2) [title III, Sec. 308(c)(1)], 
Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2762, 2762A-87.)


                               Amendments

    2000--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106-553 inserted ``or Supreme Court 
Police'' after ``Capitol Police'' in pars. (1) and (2).
    1998--Subsec. (d)(1), (2). Pub. L. 105-261 substituted 
``firefighter, or nuclear materials courier'' for ``or firefighter''.
    1990--Subsec. (d)(1), (2). Pub. L. 101-428 substituted ``officer, 
member of the Capitol Police,'' for ``officer''.
    1986--Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 99-556 designated existing provisions as 
par. (1) and added par. (2).


                    Effective Date of 2000 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 106-553 effective on the first day of the first 
applicable pay period that begins on Dec. 21, 2000, and applicable only 
to an individual who is employed as a member of the Supreme Court Police 
after Dec. 21, 2000, see section 1(a)(2) [title III, Sec. 308(i), (j)] 
of Pub. L. 106-553, set out in a Supreme Court Police Retirement note 
under section 8331 of this title.


                    Effective Date of 1998 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 105-261 effective at the beginning of the first 
pay period that begins after Oct. 17, 1998, and applicable only to an 
individual who is employed as a nuclear materials courier, as defined by 
section 8331(27) or 8401(33) of this title, after Oct. 17, 1998, see 
section 3154(m), (n) of Pub. L. 105-261, set out as a note under section 
8331 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 5597, 6302, 8413, 8414, 
8415, 8420, 8421, 8421a, 8425, 8442, 8452, 8462, 8464, 8901 of this 
title; title 10 section 10218; title 22 sections 4045, 4046, 4052, 
4071d.
