{"data":{"id":"us/5-cfr-537.104","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"5 CFR 537.104","heading":"Employee eligibility.","body":"(a) Subject to the conditions in 5 U.S.C. 5379 and this part, an authorized agency official may approve student loan repayment benefits to recruit a highly qualified job candidate or retain a highly qualified employee who, during the service period established under a service agreement (consistent with § 537.107), will be serving under—\n(1) An appointment other than a time-limited appointment; or\n(2) A time-limited appointment if—\n(i) The employee (or job candidate) will have at least 3 years remaining under the appointment after the beginning of the service period established under a service agreement; or\n(ii) The time-limited appointment authority leads to conversion to another appointment of sufficient duration so that his or her employment with the agency is projected to last for at least 3 additional years after the beginning of the service period established under a service agreement.\n(b) An employee occupying a position that is excepted from the competitive service because of its confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character is ineligible for student loan repayment benefits, except that an employee whose position is moved into Schedule Policy/Career may continue to receive student loan repayment benefits based on the terms of the existing applicable service agreement, unless eligibility is lost as described in § 537.108.\n(c) An employee becomes ineligible for student loan repayment benefits under the conditions described in § 537.108.","path":["Title 5—Administrative Personnel","CHAPTER I—OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT","SUBCHAPTER B—CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS","PART 537—REPAYMENT OF STUDENT LOANS"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-5.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:23:53Z","sha256":"51ba2eaddf03a3678143275b11de3c1d4e97cf895c449cd69bea0143250b1a82","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/5-cfr-537.103","next":"us/5-cfr-537.105"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}