About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

B-199374 1 (1980-09-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacurl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1LUTIO UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 IN REPLY REFER TO: OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL B-199374 September 2, 1980 Mr. E. Marshall, Jr., Director Veterans and Retired Affairs Air Force Sergeants Association p)/ Post Office Box 31050 Washington, D.C. 20031 Dear Mr. Marshall: Reference is made to your letter dated June 20, 1980, in which you'stek information concerning the effect that certain of the Frovisions of the Social Security Amend- ments of 19772 might have on Survivior Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities payable to surviving spouses. More specifically, you refer to section 334 of those amendments. You state that that section requires that Social Security benefits payable to surviving spouses are to be reduced by any governmental retirement benefits payable to such surviving spouses based on their own earn- ings in noncovered employment. You express the view that such provision is unfair. However, you envision a greater problem involving the possibile impact such provisions might have on surviving spouse recipients of SBP annuities who are employed governmentally at the time they become entitled to govern- mental retirement benefits in their own right. You point out that depending on how these two laws are interpreted, it appears that this category of sur- viving spouses could have their SBP annuity reduced at age 62, based on the deceased member's military service, only to have the Social Security benefit, which you say is presumed to replace the lost SBP annuity, reduced or completely eliminated because of their own retirement annuity from the governmental source. You consider this to be double dipping in reverse and you request our views on the matter.

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most