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§8586 Physical Disability Retirement

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— Navy and Marine Corps › Part III— EDUCATION AND TRAINING › Chapter 857— RETIREMENT OF CIVILIAN MEMBERS OF THE TEACHING STAFFS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY AND UNITED STATES NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL › § 8586

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

A civilian staff member with at least five years of service who becomes totally disabled before age 65 because of disease or injury not caused by their own bad habits, heavy drinking, or intentional wrongdoing can be retired and given a life annuity when they apply or when the Secretary of the Navy asks. Each year the Navy pays the difference between the full amount calculated under section 8585 and the immediate life annuity they have under the annuity policy in section 8582. If the disability is not permanent, a medical board chosen by the Superintendent of the Naval Academy or the Naval Postgraduate School will check them one year after retirement and every year until age 65. Payments stop if they are found fit to return and are offered their old job, or if they are reemployed by the United States. If later rehired as a civilian teacher there, then upon a later retirement the Secretary pays the difference between the section 8585 amount and the immediate annuity their premiums buy. They cannot receive these Navy payments at the same time they get compensation under chapter 81 of title 5.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §8586

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(a)Each civilian member who has served not less than five years, and who, before reaching the age of 65, becomes totally disabled for useful and efficient service in his position, by reason of disease or injury not due to his own vicious habits, intemperance, or willful misconduct shall, upon his application or upon the request of the Secretary of the Navy, be retired with a life annuity computed under section 8585 of this title.
(b)The amount that the Secretary shall pay annually under this section is the difference between the total amount to which the retired member is entitled under subsection (a) and the immediate life annuity to which he is entitled at the time of his disability retirement under the annuity policy required by section 8582 of this title.
(c)Each civilian member retired under this section, unless the disability for which he was retired is permanent in character, shall be examined by a board of medical officers designated by the Superintendent of the Naval Academy or of the Postgraduate School, as appropriate, one year after his retirement and annually thereafter, until he becomes 65 years of age.
(d)Payments by the Secretary under this section shall be terminated if the retired civilian member is found to be sufficiently recovered for useful and efficient service in his former position and is offered reemployment in that position by the Superintendent.
(e)If a civilian member retired under this section is later reemployed by the United States, the payments by the Secretary shall be terminated.
(f)Each civilian member retired under this section who is reemployed as a civilian member of the teaching staff of the Naval Academy or the Naval Postgraduate School shall, upon his later retirement, be paid annually by the Secretary the difference between the total annual amount computed under section 8585 of this title and the immediate life annuity which the total premiums paid on his annuity contracts would buy.
(g)No person may receive payments from the Secretary of the Navy under this chapter and, for the same period of time, compensation under chapter 81 of title 5.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 708634 U.S.C. 1073c–2.Jan. 16, 1936, ch. 3, § 4B; added Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 740, 60 Stat. 804. In subsection (a) the words “reaching the age of 65” are substituted for the words “becoming eligible for retirement under the conditions defined in the preceding sections hereof”, since a civilian member’s 65th birthday is the date on which he becomes eligible for retirement under this chapter. In subsection (c) the words “or the Postgraduate School, as appropriate” are inserted because the Postgraduate School and the Naval Academy are now two separate institutions. In subsection (f) the words “or the Naval Postgraduate School” are inserted for the same reason. In subsection (g) the words “Federal Employees Compensation Act of September 7, 1916, as amended (5 U.S.C. 751 et seq.),” are substituted for the words “Act of Sept. 7, 1916, entitled ‘An act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes’ ”. Authority for referring to this Act as the Federal Employees Compensation Act is contained in the Federal Employees Compensation Act

Amendments

of 1949, 63 Stat. 854. The words “but this provision shall not bar the right of any claimant to the greater benefit conferred by either Act for any part of the same period” are omitted as unnecessary.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232, § 807(c)(1), renumbered section 7086 of this title as this section. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–232, § 809(a), substituted “section 8585” for “section 7085”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–232, § 809(a), substituted “section 8582” for “section 7082”. Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 115–232, § 809(a), substituted “section 8585” for “section 7085”. 1966—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 89–718 substituted “chapter 81 of title 5” for “section 751–756, 757–791, and 793 of title 5”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

References to Superintendent of the Naval Postgraduate School deemed to refer to President of the Naval Postgraduate School, see section 557(a)(1), (2) of Pub. L. 108–375, set out as a note under section 8542 of this title.

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

Amendments

and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 8586

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

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