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GGD-92-15R 1 (1992-05-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackax0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-230158 May 15, 1992 146639 The Honorable David H. Pryor Chairman, Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post Office, and Civil Service Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: This is in reply to a request from your office for our views on the issues raised in a letter from your constituent, a retired federal employee. She was concerned about the Public Pension Offset, a provision of the Social Security Act that reduces Social Security benefits for federal and other government retirees who are entitled to Social Security benefits as spouses of Social Security recipients. The concerns your constituent presents are certainly understandable. The issues involved are very difficult. We have no easy solutions to suggest, but offer the following analysis and observations on the matter that may be useful to you. The Facts As Presented by Your Constituent According to your constituent, she is 61 years old. Her husband, an employee of a private company, died in 1979. She said she retired on a discontinued service early out from the Department of Agriculture when her office was closed. She did not give her retirement date. Her Civil Service pension is $1,180 a month ($1,093.94 after deductions). In response to an inquiry from your office, the Social Security Administration (SSA) advised that she will be eligible for $218 a month in Social Security survivor benefits if she waits until age 65 and $57 a month if she elects to take the benefits at age 62. Her complaint is that she would receive Social Security benefits equal to her husband's benefit (according to SSA, $779 a month at age 62 or $940 a month at age 65), were it not for the offset applied to spouses who receive federal pensions and earned no Social Security benefits from their own employment. She says the offset provision deprives her of a livable income. GAO/GGD-92-15R, Public Pension Offset

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