---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 8436"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "8436"
heading: "Administrative provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/8436"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart G — Insurance and Annuities"
  - "Chapter 84 — Federal Employees’ Retirement System"
  - "Subchapter III — Thrift Savings Plan"
---

# §8436. Administrative provisions

- (a) The [Executive Director](/usc/5/8401.md?p=13) shall make or provide for payments and transfers in accordance with an election of an [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) or [Member](/usc/5/8401.md?p=20) under section [8433](/usc/5/8433.md) or [8434(b)](/usc/5/8434.md?p=b) of this title or, if applicable, in accordance with [section 8435 of this title](/usc/5/8435.md).
- (b) Any election, change of election, or modification of a deferred annuity commencement date made under this subchapter shall be in writing and shall be filed with the [Executive Director](/usc/5/8401.md?p=13) in accordance with regulations prescribed by the [Executive Director](/usc/5/8401.md?p=13).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–335, title I, § 101(a), June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 550.)