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

# §4071i. Transition provisions


The Secretary of State shall issue regulations providing for the transition from the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability [System](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=10) to the Foreign Service Pension [System](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=10) in a manner comparable to the transition of employees subject to subchapter III of [chapter 83](/usc/5/chptIII/sptG/ch83.md) of title 5 (the Civil Service Retirement [System](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=10)) to the Federal Employees’ Retirement [System](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=10). For this and related purposes, references made to participation in subchapter III of [chapter 83](/usc/5/chptIII/sptG/ch83.md) of title 5 (the Civil Service Retirement [System](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=10)), the Social Security Act [[42 U.S.C. 301](/usc/42/301.md) et seq.], and [title 26](/usc/26.md) shall be deemed to refer to participation in the Foreign Service Pension [System](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=10) or the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability [System](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=10), as appropriate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 860, as added Pub. L. 99–335, title IV, § 415, June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 619; amended Pub. L. 99–514, § 2, Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2095.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Social Security Act, referred to in text, is act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620, which is classified generally to chapter 7 (§ 301 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1305 of Title 42 and Tables.

### Amendments

1986—Pub. L. 99–514 substituted “Internal Revenue Code of 1986” for “Internal Revenue Code of 1954”, which for purposes of codification was translated as “title 26” thus requiring no change in text.