22 U.S.C. § 4071a — Definitions

The section does not define its own term “court order”; it gives that term the meaning in section 4044(4). “Fund” means the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund maintained by the Treasury Secretary under section 4042.

“Lump-sum credit” means the unpaid amount made up of: (A) retirement deductions from a participant’s basic pay^* under section 4071e or the 1983 temporary adjustment law; (B) amounts the participant paid to receive credit for earlier civilian or military service under section 4071c; and (C) interest on those deductions and payments. For each calendar year, that interest equals the Fund’s overall average yield during the previous fiscal year on obligations bought by the Treasury Secretary under section 4059, as determined by the Treasury Secretary, compounded yearly. Interest is not included if the covered service totals 1 year or less, or for a fractional month in the total service.

“Normal cost” means the entry-age normal cost of the System provisions related to the Fund. The Secretary of State calculates it using generally accepted actuarial practices and standards, using dynamic assumptions, and states it as a level percentage of total basic pay. “Participant” means a person who participates in the Foreign Service Pension System.

For a former spouse, “pro rata share” means the percentage found by dividing the years the former spouse was married to the participant during the participant’s service creditable under this subchapter by the participant’s total years of that service. Extra credit under section 4057 is disregarded.

A “revised annuity participant” is an individual who, on December 31, 2012, (A)(i) was not a participant, (ii) was not performing service creditable under section 4071c, and (iii) had less than 5 years of such creditable service, and who, after that date and before January 1, 2014, became a participant performing such creditable service.

A “further revised annuity participant” is an individual who, on December 31, 2013, (A)(i) was not a participant, (ii) was not performing service creditable under section 4071c, and (iii) had less than 5 years of such creditable service, and who became a participant performing such creditable service after December 31, 2013.

“Supplemental liability” means the estimated excess of (A) the actuarial present value of all future benefits payable from the Fund under this part based on participants’ or former participants’ service, over (B) the total of: (i) the actuarial present value of deductions from participants’ future basic pay under section 4071e and contributions for past civilian and military service; (ii) the actuarial present value of future contributions under section 4071f; (iii) the Fund balance when the liability is determined, to the extent attributable to (I) the System or (II) contributions under the 1983 temporary adjustment law; and (iv) any other appropriate amount the Secretary of State determines under generally accepted actuarial practices and principles. “System” means the Foreign Service Pension System. The section does not define “special agent”; it gives that term the meaning in section 4044(15).