Evening star., 1920-06-14
SEPARATION NOTICE
SOON NTOGOOUT TO
MANY j. s. CLERKS
Pay Status Under New Re-
tirement Law Ends Au-
gust 20.

Notices of separation from the serv-
ice will go out within a few days to
approximately 1.60O federal employees in
the District of Columbia who are sew
enty years old or over and therefore
come within the provisions of the re-
tirement law.
Copies of the official notice Of separa-
ton blank as prepared by the pension
bureau have been placed in the hands of
administrative officials of the depart
ments. and these notices must be prop
erly prepared and given to employees by
June 21.
'It shall be the duty of the head of
each department branch or independent
office of the government to notify such
employees under his direction of the date
Of such separation from the service at
least sixty days in advance thereof"
reads the law.
Pay Status Ends August 20.
'fThe last day that you will have a pay
status is August 90, and at the close OF
that day you will be automatically sep
arated from the service. unless you are
otherwise advised declares the notice
of separation.
The notice. as made public today. is
thus phrased in cold legal language. and
will go not only to the 1900 local em-
ployes of the government who are ell
gible for retirement. but to total num-
ber between 1000 and 5000 throughout
the United States.
How Notice Reads.
The notice >of separation reads as
follows:
In accordance with the provisions
of section of the act of May %. 1920,
for the retirement of employees in the
classified civil service. and for other
purposes, you are hereby notified
have reached the age of seventy
years (sixty-two or sixty-five yearsf,
and have rendered at least fifteen
years of service. and are therefore.
eligible for retirement on annuity.
The last day that you will have
pay status is August 20. and at the
close of that day you will be auto
matically separated from the service.
unless you are otherwise advised.
Said act provides (section - that
every employe, upon becoming eligible
for retirement because of age. shall,
within sixty days after the passage
of the act (May %, 1920, or thirty
days before reaching retirement age.
or at any time thereafter, file with
the commissioner of pensions. in such
form as he may prescribe, an applica-
ton for annuity.
"On request, a blank application will
be furnished by the commissioner Of
pensions"
Another Blank Attacked.
g AT the bottom of the blank there is
another blank attached, to be signed
by the one to be retired, acknowl.
edging receipt of a copy of the notice
of separation of service. The use Of
this particular form of notice of sep
aration is not incumbent upon admin
tive officials, but they may use
one of their own makeup.
The blank as given above is filled
out as for those who will be the first
retired, The last day of the pay
status will. of course. depend in the
future upon the days and years the
employees will become of retirement
age, as the years go by. Just how
many will be retired monthly here
after yet remains to be seen in the
actual working out of the law.
1t is believed that practically all OF
the 1000 local employees of the gov
ernment who come within the retire.
ment age will retire. This belief is
based upon informal conferences of
department heads.