---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 8403"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "8403"
heading: "Relationship to the Social Security Act"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/8403"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart G — Insurance and Annuities"
  - "Chapter 84 — Federal Employees’ Retirement System"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §8403. Relationship to the Social Security Act


Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the benefits payable under the [System](/usc/5/8401.md?p=29) are in addition to the benefits payable under the Social Security Act.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–335, title I, § 101(a), June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 522.)

## 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.