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Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73not60

§12529 Board of Actuaries

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle E— Reserve Components › Part II— PERSONNEL GENERALLY › Chapter 1214— READY RESERVE MOBILIZATION INCOME INSURANCE › § 12529

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Board of Actuaries must handle the actuarial work for the insurance program. It must do regular math checks of the program’s benefits and set a method for how premiums are calculated. The Board must do the first study and set the premium method within six months after the program starts. If benefits change or if assumptions or experience produce a gain or loss to the Fund since the last study, the Board must pick a way to spread that liability or gain over time and recommend a premium schedule to the Secretary. If members of the Ready Reserve are ordered to active duty under section 12521(2) and the Fund’s liabilities exceed its assets, the Secretary will ask the President to seek a special appropriation. If Congress does not provide money in a fiscal year, the Secretary must lower benefit payments so total payments do not exceed the Fund’s assets expected by the end of that fiscal year; unpaid amounts are deferred until funds are available. The Board must define the term “present value” for these rules.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §12529

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(a)The Board of Actuaries shall have the actuarial responsibility for the insurance program.
(b)The Board of Actuaries shall carry out periodic actuarial valuations of the benefits under the insurance program and determine a premium rate methodology for the Secretary to use in setting premium rates for the insurance program. The Board shall conduct the first valuation and determine a premium rate methodology not later than six months after the insurance program is established.
(c)If at the time of any actuarial valuation under subsection (b) there has been a change in benefits under the insurance program that has been made since the last such valuation and such change in benefits increases or decreases the present value of amounts payable from the Fund, the Board of Actuaries shall determine a premium rate methodology, and recommend to the Secretary a premium schedule, for the liquidation of any liability (or actuarial gain to the Fund) resulting from such change and any previous such changes so that the present value of the sum of the scheduled premium payments (or reduction in payments that would otherwise be made) equals the cumulative increase (or decrease) in the present value of such benefits.
(d)If at the time of any such valuation the Board of Actuaries determines that there has been an actuarial gain or loss to the Fund as a result of changes in actuarial assumptions since the last valuation or as a result of any differences, between actual and expected experience since the last valuation, the Board shall recommend to the Secretary a premium rate schedule for the amortization of the cumulative gain or loss to the Fund resulting from such changes in assumptions and any previous such changes in assumptions or from the differences in actual and expected experience, respectively, through an increase or decrease in the payments that would otherwise be made to the Fund.
(e)If at any time liabilities of the Fund exceed assets of the Fund as a result of members of the Ready Reserve being ordered to active duty as described in section 12521(2) of this title, and funds are unavailable to pay benefits completely, the Secretary shall request the President to submit to Congress a request for a special appropriation to cover the unfunded liability. If appropriations are not made to cover an unfunded liability in any fiscal year, the Secretary shall reduce the amount of the benefits paid under the insurance program to a total amount that does not exceed the assets of the Fund expected to accrue by the end of such fiscal year. Benefits that cannot be paid because of such a reduction shall be deferred and may be paid only after and to the extent that additional funds become available.
(f)The Board of Actuaries shall define the term “present value” for purposes of this subsection.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 12529

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60