5 CFR § 849.102 - Definitions.

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title: "5 CFR § 849.102 - Definitions."
title_number: 5
title_name: "Administrative Personnel"
section_number: "849.102"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT"
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# 849.102 Definitions.

As used in this part:

*Agency* means the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

*CSRS* means the Civil Service Retirement System as described in subchapter III of chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code.

*FERS* means the Federal Employees' Retirement System as described in chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code.

*Misuse of benefits* means the embezzlement or conversion of all or any part of the amount received by the representative payee for a use other than for the use and benefit of the minor or individual on whose behalf such payments were received.

*Physician* and *practitioner* have the same meaning given these terms in § 339.104 of this chapter.

*Representative payee* means a person, who is at least 18 years of age, or an organization designated to receive annuity payments on behalf of a minor or an individual mentally incompetent or under other legal disability.