---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 8465"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "8465"
heading: "Waiver, allotment, and assignment of benefits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/8465"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart G — Insurance and Annuities"
  - "Chapter 84 — Federal Employees’ Retirement System"
  - "Subchapter VI — General and Administrative Provisions"
---

# §8465. Waiver, allotment, and assignment of benefits

- (a) An individual entitled to an annuity payable from the [Fund](/usc/5/8401.md?p=6) may decline to accept all or any part of the amount of the annuity by a waiver signed and filed with the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3). The waiver may be revoked in writing at any time. Payment of the annuity waived may not be made for the period during which the waiver is in effect.
- (b) An individual entitled to an annuity payable from the [Fund](/usc/5/8401.md?p=6) may make allotments or assignments of amounts from the annuity for such purposes as the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) considers appropriate.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–335, title I, § 101(a), June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 575.)