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B-230340.2 1 (1989-03-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnkp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General ~ of the United States f, Washino, D.C. 20648 Deision Mrs. Ruth B. Holmes - Survivor Benefit Plan - Matterof: Social Security Offset File: B-230340.2 Date: March 24, 1989 DIGEST The Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) is an income maintenance program for the dependents of deceased military retirees, and it was designed to complement social security survivor benefits. The SBP law contains a provision requiring an annuity offset in the amount of the social security survivor benefit to which a widow or widower would be entitled predicated on the retiree's military service, regardless of the actual social security entitlement. Hence, the SBP annuity of an Army reservist's widow was subject to a social security offset based on 5 two-week periods of annual active training duty he performed between 1957 and 1961, notwith- standing that her social security benefits were actually based on the retiree's nonmilitary employment. DECISION In this case we conclude that the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuity of the widow of a retired Army Reserve officer was properly reduced on account of a social security offset provision contained in the SBP law.l/ We also 1/ This action is in response to a request for an advance decision received from Mr. P. B. Wolfsheimer, Special Disbursing Agent, Army Finance and Accounting Center, concerning the propriety of issuing payment on a voucher in favor of Mrs. Ruth B. Holmes in the amount of $315.90, representing a refund of reductions made in her SBP annuity for the period from January 1 through September 30, 1987, on account of the social security offset provision of the SBP law. The request was for- warded here by the Office of the Secretary of the Army after it was approved by the Department of Defense Military Pay and Allowance Committee and assigned submission number DO-A-1482.

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