---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 841.202"
title: "5"
number: "841.202"
heading: "Applications required."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/841.202"
---

# §841.202. Applications required.

- (a) No benefit is payable under FERS, until after the claimant has applied for the benefit in the form prescribed by OPM.
- (b) An employee, Member, or survivor may exercise any option or make any election authorized by FERS only in the form prescribed by OPM.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 52 FR 19244, May 21, 1987, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 8461; Sec. 841.108 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552a; Secs. 841.110 and 841.111 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 8470(a); subpart D also issued under 5 U.S.C. 8423; Sec. 841.504 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 8422; Sec. 841.507 also issued under section 505 of Pub. L. 99-335; subpart J also issued under 5 U.S.C. 8469; Sec. 841.506 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 7701(b)(2); Sec. 841.508 also issued under section 505 of Pub. L. 99-335; Sec. 841.604 also issued under Title II, Pub. L. 106-265, 114 Stat. 780; Sec. 5001 of Pub. L. 112-96 at 126 Stat. 199.