---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 8454"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "8454"
heading: "Medical examination"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/8454"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart G — Insurance and Annuities"
  - "Chapter 84 — Federal Employees’ Retirement System"
  - "Subchapter V — Disability Benefits"
---

# §8454. Medical examination


An [annuitant](/usc/5/8401.md?p=2) receiving a disability retirement annuity from the [Fund](/usc/5/8401.md?p=6) shall be examined under the direction of the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3)—

- (1) at the end of 1 year from the date of the disability retirement; and
- (2) annually thereafter until becoming 60 years of age;

unless the disability is permanent in character. If the [annuitant](/usc/5/8401.md?p=2) fails to submit to examination as required by this section, payment of the annuity shall be suspended until continuance of the disability is satisfactorily established.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–335, title I, § 101(a), June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 568.)