Civil Service Retirement System Annuitants and Social …

Civil ServiceRetirement SystemAnnuitants and Social Security by Robert Dalrymple, Susan Grad, and Duke Wilson*. This article examines the extent to which Annuitants of the Federal employee Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) are entitled to Social Security benefits. It is based on linked admin- istrative data files from the two systems. Ninety-one percent of all those receiving CSRS annuities in 1979 had worked at some point in their careers in jobs that were covered by Social Securi- ty. Almost 80 percent of the Annuitants aged 65 or older were entitled to Medicare benefits. Of those aged 62 or older, 73 per- cent were entitled to Social Security cash benefits, including 10. percent who were entitled only as spouses or survivors of work- ers covered under Social Security.

benefits as wives or widows. (Some of these women also were insured for benefits based on their own work.) If the public pension offset en- acted in December 1977 had applied to these women, their Social Security benefits as wives or widows would have been offset $1 for $1 against their annuity amount.2

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