5 CFR § 837.601 - Generally.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t5/s837.601"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "5 CFR § 837.601 - Generally."
title_number: 5
title_name: "Administrative Personnel"
section_number: "837.601"
section_name: "Generally."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS"
part_number: "837"
part_name: "REEMPLOYMENT OF ANNUITANTS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "5 U.S.C. 8337, 8344, 8347, 8455, 8456, 8461, and 8468; and section 302 of Pub. L. 99-335, June 6, 1986, as amended."
regulatory_source: "58 FR 48266, Sept. 15, 1993, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "837"
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# 837.601 Generally.

Except as otherwise provided by this subpart, when an annuitant who is reemployed under circumstances that provide for continuation of annuitant status during reemployment dies, death benefits are payable under CSRS or FERS as if the individual died as an annuitant, and not as employee.