Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§4071h General and administrative provisions

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 52— - FOREIGN SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VIII— - FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY › Part Part II— - Foreign Service Pension System › § 4071h

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of State must run the Foreign Service Pension System, except for Thrift Savings Plan matters in subchapters III and VII of chapter 84, title 5, and has the OPM powers under that chapter to make rules. Decisions that would go to the Merit Systems Protection Board instead go to the Foreign Service Grievance Board, but disability decisions follow section 4048. Every 5 years the Secretary of the Treasury must value the system and report the normal cost, supplemental liability, and funding needed.

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Title 22, §4071h

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(a)The Secretary of State shall administer the Foreign Service Pension System except for matters relating to the Thrift Savings Plan provided in subchapters III and VII of chapter 84 of title 5. The Secretary of State shall, with respect to the Foreign Service Pension System, perform the functions and exercise the authority vested in the Office of Personnel Management or the Director of such Office by such chapter 84 and may issue regulations for such purposes.

(b)Determinations of the Secretary of State under the Foreign Service Pension System which, if made by the Office of Personnel Management under chapter 84 of title 5 or the Director of such Office, would be appealable to the Merit Systems Protection Board shall, instead, be appealable to the Foreign Service Grievance Board, except that determinations of disability for participants shall be based upon the standards in section 4048 of this title (other than the exclusion for vicious habits, intemperance, or willful misconduct) and subject to review in the same manner as under that section.

(c)At least every 5 years, the Secretary of the Treasury shall prepare periodic valuations of the Foreign Service Pension System and shall advise the Secretary of State of (1) the normal cost of the System, (2) the supplemental liability of the System, and (3) the amounts necessary to finance the costs of the System.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 4071h

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73