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B-156550 1 (1979-06-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjnx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~/ COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES ~ WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 B-156550 JUN 2 2 1979 FPC-96-1-7 The Honorable Abraham Ribicoff Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: This is in response to your request for our comments onJ5.358, a bill o remove certain inequities in the Secret Service Retirement System We should first point out that the title of the bill is technically incorrect. There is no retirement plan known as the Secret Service Retirement System as the title would indicate. Except as explained further below, Secret Service personnel participate in the civil service retirement system. By legislation enacted in 1940, non-clericl Secret Service employees with 10 years' service directly related to pro- tecting the President may elect coverage under the District of Columbia's police and firemen's retirement system--a much more generous plan than civil service retirement. Employees of the Secret Service Uniformed Division (known prior to November 15, 1977, as the Executive Protective Service) are also covered by the District system. The 1940 legislation was amended in 1964 to allow members of the Secret Service appointed from the Executive Protective Service to credit periods of prior service with the District Police, Park Police, or Executive Protective Service toward the required 10 years. (Park Police also participate in the District retirement system). The legis- lative history of the 1964 amendment indicated that Secret Service agents assigned to protect the President were generally recruited from the Executive Protective Service and -District police force. The Secret Service was having difficulty recruiting such personnel because they were re- luctant to transfer to the Secret Service and be placed under the less generous provisions of the civil service system until they satisfied the 10-year requirement. 6r6$o 5

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