The Washington herald., 1911-06-16

Retirement and pensions are provided
for civil service employees by a-bill in
troduced in the House yesterday by Rep
Iresentative Peters, of Massachusetts. The
conditions under which retirement with
part pay may be granted vary from FIVE
to thirty-f1ve year service periods and
from sixty to sixty-five years in point
Of age
The bill provides that beginning with
the 1st Of July next following the pas.
sage Of this act, all employees Of the
classified civil service shall be eligible
for retirement as hereinafter stated"
Eligibility Rules
The eligibility section provides that for
service Of thirty-five years, applicants
sixty years old may be retired on one
half Of their average pay for the five
years Immediately preceding retirement.
After thirty years of service, applicants
sixty-two years old may be retired on
five-twelfths of their average pay for the
five years Immediately preceding. After
twenty-five years OF service, applicants
sixty-four years old may be retired on
one-third Of their average pay, &C. After
twenty years Of service, applicants
sixty-six years old may be retired on
one-fourth Of their average pay, &C.
No employe shall be retained in the serv-
ice after reaching the age of seventy.
All payments are to be made quarterly
and are to continue through life
Disability Clause In.
The bill provides that any employe
to whom this applies, of not less than
Ave years service. who, by reason Of ac-
cident or illness not due to vicious hab-
its or intemperance, or who, by reason of
exigencies of the service, has become dis
abled, shall be retired from the service
on a certificate from the head af the de-
partment or independent Office in which
he is employed to the Secretary Of the
Treasury. setting forth such disabilities,
and on approval of the Secretary of the
Treasury he shall receive an allowance
equal to the annuity provided in section
2 Of this act, irrespective of age If he
shall have served less than twenty years,
but at least five years, he shall receive
two-fifths of his average salary for the
five years Immediately preceding retire
ment.
The arrival at the age of seventy of
an employe who has served twenty years
shall OF itself be sufficient evidence of
disability.
Secretary May Terminate.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury shall
terminate the disability allowance OF
any employe whenever in his Judgment
it shall be proper to do so. Provided.
however, that the disabled employe may
apply to commission of three. to con-
sist OF the commissioner of the district
court OF the United States where he re-
sides; a supervisory or other officer or
other employe selected by the head of the
or Independent Office in
which the disabled employe was last en-
ployed. and a competent citizen of good
repute, selected by the disabled en-
ploye.'
Section s Of the act provides that
the period of service shall date from the
original employment, whether in the clas-
sified or unclassified service, and shall
include periods OF service at different
times and service in one or more depart
ments, branches, or Independent offices of
the government the Signal Corps, prior
to July /, 1891, and the general service
in or under the War Department prior
to May 6, 1896.
Temporary service after retirement is
provided for by section Z, which says