---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 550.708"
title: "5"
number: "550.708"
heading: "Creditable service."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/550.708"
---

# §550.708. Creditable service.


The following types of service are creditable for computing an employee's severance pay under [§ 550.707](/cfr/5/550.707.md):

- (a) Civilian service as an employee (as defined in [5 U.S.C. 2105](/usc/5/2105.md)), excluding time during a period of nonpay status that is not creditable for annual leave accrual purposes under [5 U.S.C. 6303(a)](/usc/5/6303.md?p=a);
- (b) Service performed with the United States Postal Service or the Postal Rate Commission;
- (c) Military service, including active or inactive training with the National Guard, when performed by an employee who returns to civilian service through the exercise of a restoration right provided by law, Executive order, or regulation;
- (d) Service performed by an employee of a nonappropriated fund instrumentality of the Department of Defense or the Coast Guard, as defined in [5 U.S.C. 2105(c)](/usc/5/2105.md?p=c), who moves to a position within the civil service employment system of the Department of Defense or the Coast Guard, respectively, without a break in service of more than 3 days; and
- (e) Service performed with the government of the District of Columbia by an individual first employed by that government before October 1, 1987, excluding service as a teacher or librarian of the public schools of the District of Columbia.

## Notes

### Amendments

[55 FR 6593, Feb. 26, 1990, as amended at 57 FR 12405, Apr. 10, 1992; 58 FR 33499, June 18, 1993; 64 FR 69177, Dec. 10, 1999]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5595; E.O. 11257, 3 CFR, 1964-1965 Comp., p. 357.

### Source

Source: 55 FR 6593, Feb. 26, 1990, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 33 FR 12458, Sept. 4, 1968, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[55 FR 6593, Feb. 26, 1990, as amended at 57 FR 12405, Apr. 10, 1992; 58 FR 33499, June 18, 1993; 64 FR 69177, Dec. 10, 1999]