---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1436a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1436a"
heading: "Coverage paid up at 30 years and age 70"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1436a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 73 — Annuities Based on Retired or Retainer Pay"
  - "Subchapter I — Retired Serviceman’s Family Protection Plan"
---

# §1436a. Coverage paid up at 30 years and age 70


Effective October 1, 2008, a reduction under this subchapter in the retired or retainer [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) of a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) electing an annuity under this subchapter may not be made for any month after the later of—

- (1) the month that is the 360th month for which that [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2)’s retired or retainer [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) is reduced pursuant to such an election; and
- (2) the month during which that [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) attains 70 years of age.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title VI, § 655(a), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 667.)