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

# §4071g. Cost-of-living adjustments


Cost-of-living adjustments for [annuitants](/usc/22/4044.md?p=1) under this [System](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=10) shall be granted under procedures in [section 8462 of title 5](/usc/5/8462.md) in the same manner as such adjustments are made for [annuitants](/usc/22/4044.md?p=1) referred to in [subsection (c)(3)(B)(ii)](/usc/5/8462.md?p=c-3-B-ii) of such section.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 858, as added Pub. L. 99–335, title IV, § 415, June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 619.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Delay in Cost-of-Living Adjustments During Fiscal Years 1994, 1995, and 1996

Any cost-of-living increase scheduled to take effect during fiscal year 1994, 1995, or 1996 under this section delayed until first day of third calendar month after date such increase would otherwise take effect, see section 11001 of Pub. L. 103–66, set out as a note under section 8340 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.