---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 2153"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "2153"
heading: "Special rules for other employees for service abroad"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/2153"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability"
  - "Subchapter III — Participation in Federal Employees’ Retirement System"
---

# §2153. Special rules for other employees for service abroad

- (a) **Special computation rule—** Notwithstanding any provision of [chapter 84](/usc/5/chptIII/sptG/ch84.md) of title 5, the annuity under subchapter II of such chapter of a retired [employee](/usc/50/2001.md?p=9) of the [Agency](/usc/50/2001.md?p=1) who is not designated under [section 2152(a) of this title](/usc/50/2152.md?p=a) and who has served abroad as an [employee](/usc/50/2001.md?p=9) of the [Agency](/usc/50/2001.md?p=1) after December 31, 1986, shall be computed as provided in [subsection (b)](#b).
- (b) **Computation—**
  - (1) **Service abroad—** The portion of the annuity relating to such service abroad shall be computed as provided in [section 8415(e) of title 5](/usc/5/8415.md?p=e).
  - (2) **Other service—** The portions of the annuity relating to other [creditable service](/usc/50/2002.md?p=a-4-C) shall be computed as provided in section 8415 of such title that is applicable to such service under the conditions prescribed in chapter 84 of such title.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–643, title III, § 303, as added Pub. L. 102–496, title VIII, § 802, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3244; amended Pub. L. 112–96, title V, § 5001(c)(2)(G), Feb. 22, 2012, 126 Stat. 200.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 303 of Pub. L. 88–643, as added Pub. L. 99–335, title V, § 506, June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 626, related to special rules for other employees for service abroad and was set out as a note under section 403 of this title prior to the general amendment of Pub. L. 88–643 by section 802 of Pub. L. 102–496.

### Amendments

2012—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 112–96 substituted “section 8415(e)” for “section 8415(d)”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on first day of fourth month beginning after Oct. 24, 1992, see section 805 of Pub. L. 102–496, set out as a note under section 2001 of this title.