---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4068"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4068"
heading: "Remarriage"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4068"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Foreign Service Retirement and Disability"
  - "Part I — Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System"
---

# §4068. Remarriage


Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, any benefit payable under this part to a [surviving spouse](/usc/22/4044.md?p=13), [former spouse](/usc/22/4044.md?p=6), or surviving [former spouse](/usc/22/4044.md?p=6) that would otherwise terminate or be lost if the individual remarried before 60 years of age, shall not terminate or be lost if the remarriage occurred on or after November 8, 1984, and the individual was 55 years of age or over on the date of the remarriage.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 828, as added Pub. L. 99–335, title IV, § 412, June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 614.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1987, see section 702(a) of Pub. L. 99–335, set out as a note under section 8401 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.