---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 4513"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "4513"
heading: "Presidential awards for cost savings disclosures"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/4513"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart C — Employee Performance"
  - "Chapter 45 — Incentive Awards"
  - "Subchapter II — Awards for Cost Savings Disclosures"
---

# §4513. Presidential awards for cost savings disclosures


The President may [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4) a cash award in the amount of $20,000 to any [employee](/usc/5/4501.md?p=2) whose disclosure of fraud, waste, or mismanagement has resulted in substantial cost savings for the [Government](/usc/5/4501.md?p=3). In evaluating the significance of a cost savings disclosure made by an [employee](/usc/5/4501.md?p=2) for purposes of determining whether to make an award to such [employee](/usc/5/4501.md?p=2) under this section, the President may take into [account](/usc/5/8401.md?p=1) cost savings projected for subsequent fiscal years which will be attributable to the disclosure. During any fiscal year, the President may not make more than 50 awards under this section.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 97–35, title XVII, § 1703(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 755.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1981, see section 1703(c) of Pub. L. 97–35, set out as an Effective Date of 1981 Amendment note under section 4501 of this title.