---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4071"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4071"
heading: "Establishment; application of Federal Employees’ Retirement System to Foreign Service Pension System participants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4071"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Foreign Service Retirement and Disability"
  - "Part II — Foreign Service Pension System"
---

# §4071. Establishment; application of Federal Employees’ Retirement System to Foreign Service Pension System participants

- (a) There is hereby established a Foreign Service Pension [System](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=10).
- (b) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this part or any other provision of law, the provisions of [chapter 84](/usc/5/chptIII/sptG/ch84.md) of title 5 shall apply to all [participants](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=5) in the Foreign Service Pension [System](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=10) and such [participants](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=5) shall be treated in all respects similar to persons whose participation in the Federal Employees’ Retirement [System](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=10) provided in that chapter is required.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 851, as added Pub. L. 99–335, title IV, § 415, June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 615.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Part 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.