---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 8463"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "8463"
heading: "Rate of benefits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/8463"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart G — Insurance and Annuities"
  - "Chapter 84 — Federal Employees’ Retirement System"
  - "Subchapter VI — General and Administrative Provisions"
---

# §8463. Rate of benefits


Each annuity payable from the [Fund](/usc/5/8401.md?p=6) is stated as an annual amount, one-twelfth of which, rounded to the next lower dollar, constitutes the monthly rate payable on the first business day of the first month beginning after the month for which it has accrued.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–335, title I, § 101(a), June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 574.)