1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Furloughed Federal Employee Double Dip Elimination Act”.
Furloughed Federal Employee Double Dip Elimination Act
A BILL
To amend title 5, United States Code, to make clear that Federal employees who receive back pay for a period during which they are furloughed due to a lapse in appropriations may not also receive unemployment compensation for the same period.
2. Clarification
by inserting “(a)” before the first sentence; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(b) The rules and regulations shall include provisions to ensure that, in the case of a Federal employee who receives back pay for a period during which such employee was furloughed due to a lapse in appropriations—
“(1) such back pay shall be treated in the same way as Federal wages attributable to such employee; and
“(2) the period to which such back pay relates shall be treated in the same way as a period of Federal service attributable to such employee.”
Effective date— The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be effective as of September 30, 2013.