{"data":{"id":"us/5-cfr-550.704","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"5 CFR 550.704","heading":"Eligibility for severance pay.","body":"(a) To be eligible for severance pay, an employee must:\n(1) Be serving under a qualifying appointment;\n(2) Have completed at least 12 months of continuous service, as described in § 550.705; and\n(3) Be removed from Federal service by involuntary separation.\n(b) An employee is not eligible for severance pay if he or she:\n(1) Is serving under a nonqualifying appointment;\n(2) Declines a reasonable offer;\n(3) Is serving under a qualifying appointment in an agency scheduled by law or Executive order to be terminated within 1 year after the date of the appointment, unless on the date of separation, the agency's termination has been postponed to a date more than 1 year after the date of the appointment, or the appointment is effected within 3 calendar days after separation from a qualifying appointment;\n(4) Is receiving injury compensation under subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, unless the compensation is being received concurrently with pay or is the result of someone else's death;\n(5) Is eligible upon separation for an immediate annuity from a Federal civilian retirement system or from the uniformed services. Such an employee is ineligible even if all or part of the annuity is offset by payments from a non-Federal retirement system the employee elected instead of Federal civilian retirement benefits or disability benefits received from the Department of Veterans Affairs; or\n(6) Occupies a position in Schedule Policy/Career of the excepted service and his or her agency identifies unacceptable performance or misconduct as the basis for separation in a written notice to the employee.","path":["Title 5—Administrative Personnel","CHAPTER I—OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT","SUBCHAPTER B—CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS","PART 550—PAY ADMINISTRATION (GENERAL)","Subpart G—Severance Pay"],"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":"6597e82ce2cec1a406a2d2bdb60c4c5461712311bb0d528c5d6370a9276bd266","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/5-cfr-550.703","next":"us/5-cfr-550.705"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}