---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 8914"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "8914"
heading: "Effect of other statutes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/8914"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart G — Insurance and Annuities"
  - "Chapter 89 — Health Insurance"
---

# §8914. Effect of other statutes


Any provision of law outside of this chapter which provides coverage or any other benefit under this chapter to any individuals who (based on their being employed by an entity other than the [Government](/usc/5/4101.md?p=3)) would not otherwise be [eligible](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-3) for any such coverage or benefit shall not apply with respect to any individual appointed, transferred, or otherwise commencing that type of employment on or after October 1, 1988.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–238, title I, § 108(a)(3)(A), Jan. 8, 1988, 101 Stat. 1747.)