TRAVEL BENEFITS FOR CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM PARTICIPANTS

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• Publication Date: December 29, 1970
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CIA ACTS & STATUTES
DD/S 70-5015
29 DEC 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Personnel
Special Support Assistant to the DD/S
SUBJECT Travel Benefits for Civil Service Retirement System
Participants
1. I have not forwarded to the Executive Director the revised
proposal as set forth in the 23 December 1970 memorandum in view of
the comments by the Director of Personnel in his 23 December 1970
memorandum. In submitting any recommendation on this subject to the
Executive Director there need be an agreement of position by both the
DD/S and the D/Pers. This means that there must be agreement in
principle as to .the recommendation involved, an understanding of the
procedural effects upon the Office of Personnel which must administer
the benefits and the need to supply the Executive Director with completed
staff work. The Office of General Counsel in its 23 June 1970 memorandum
states that it has no legal objection to an extension of benefits if it is deemed
necessary for the proper administration of all employees of the Agency.
We would not need to belabor the legal position but should address ourselves
to the necessity for the proper administration of all employees of the Agency.
I think we are all in agreement on the principle of extension of benefits where
justified. Our problem devolves from the determination of those Civil Service
employees who are deserving of an extension of travel benefits and how these
might be differentiated from other Civil Service System retirement employees.
I feel that we must settle first on the rationale to be certain that we are all
in agreement in principle. When that is achieved procedural determinations
can then be developed which, if approved, can then be administered within
the Agency with a minimum of dissatisfaction.
2. I therefore ask that the addressees, with the Office of General
Counsel, develop a rationale for the extension of such benefits. We should
proceed from the basic premise as stated by our knowledge and documentation
that Agency employees regardless of their retirement system are by Agency
policy required to retire at age 60 and their entire official life is governed
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? by a series of restrictions and controls over their official and private
life which are unique to the vast majority of other employees of the
Federal Government. These restrictions and controls affect the working
environment of the employee, the personal life of the employee and his
family and his normalcy as a private citizen and are deserving of
appropriate recognition. The extension of statutory benefits after retire-
ment are one form of recognition. We must keep in mind that there are
other forms of statutory benefits either now existent or may be legislated
in the future which are deserving of application to Agency employees. The
rationale should be so developed as to recognize the current benefits under
question and similar other benefits which may be legislated in the future.
It may be that these benefits are deserving to only some of the Civil Service
System employees at this time but should recognize that our thinking and
conditions of employment may warrant extension in the near future to all
Civil Service System employees. I think we are all in agreement that
legislation in the last several years has moved the benefits under the
Civil Service System to that closely approximating the CIARDS System.
If this trend continues it could well be that the two systems in the future
will be relatively indistinguishable except through their divided legislative
authority. At such point the Agency could well consider converting all
employees to the Civil Service System including those presently under
CIARDS or in recognition of the restrictions and controls on Agency employees
converting all Agency employees to the CIARDS System. The acquisition
of benefits by legislative action would presume that legislative authority
would permit the inclusion of all Agency employees under the CIARDS
System.
3. You will recall that since the approval by the Executive Director
on 21 May 1968 of the extension of benefits to the CIARDS System that the
Executive Director requested consideration of its applicability to the other
employees of the Agency under the Civil Service System to assure that
equal benefits are accorded Agency employees. Since that time there have
been a series of studies and meetings on this subject with a rather extensive
review by the Travel Policy Committee. In each of these studies and
considerations there has been a? rather strong voice over the difficulties
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of the administration of a system and the anticipated workload that would
, result to the Agency, particularly the Office of Personnel. I feel that
these difficulties have been overstated and certainly we should never
deny employees proper benefits over an assumed difficulty of administering
the benefits. It is our clear responsibility to manage the system so that
these problems do not obtain. I think the statistics of experience will show
rather clearly that the number of individuals who after retirement elect
to avail themselves of these benefits are quite small and this should not
in any sense be considered a problem. Obviously if the rationale is sound
the procedural application should not be difficult and a differentiation at this
time of those employees considered to be deserving of the benefits. I ask
that the addressees immediately seek to work out both a rationale and the
procedures which can be submitted to the Executive Director for his
consideration.
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Deputy Director
for Support
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21 December 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Support
Bob:
I know you want some action taken on this
quickly, and I should like to oblige, but I am still hung up on the
fact that I have to certify that this action is "necessary for the
proper administration of all employees of the Agency. I am not
at all sure that the new formula is an equitable answer to the
problem. I can imagine that quite a number of people, like TSD'ers,
Security or Comrno Tech., etc., might qualify under this formula
without really being mobile in the sense of uprooting and moving
their families from one place to another. Their home has been
Washington, and the allowance to move to Florida or California
would be somewhat of a windfall.
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In short, I am fearful that the proposed for-
mula would not really provide equity and might make more people
unhappy than it would please. I suggest that you, Houston, and I,
along with anyone you want to bring, get together after the Morning
Meeting tomorrow to discuss this briefly.
L. K. White
Attachment:
Memo to ExDJr from DD/S did 18 Dec 70, Subj:
Administrative Adoption of Statutory Benefits
cc: General Counsel
Discussed at a meeting with Executive Director 22 December 1970.
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10 Dec.
ORANDUM FOR: Executive Director-Comptroller
SUBJECT
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: Administrative Adoption of Statutory Benefits
ERENCE : Memo dtd 23 Jun 70 to DDS ft General Counsel,
same subj
1. graph 4 of this memorandum contains a recommendation
for your approval.
2. In referent memorandum the General Counsel has stated
there would be no legal objection to the Agency extending to retirees
under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) the same retiree
and death travel benefits as are now provided for retirees under the
Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System (CURDS).
The General Counsel makes the point that there is an apparent inequity in
not granting retirees under the CSRS who are stationed PCS In the United
States the travel benefits earlier approved for those under the CIARDS.
S. From a discussion of this matter in a Deputies meeting on
15 July I970. it was the consensus that the Agency should extend to
some participants in the CSRS the same retires and death travel benefits
as are now provided participant. In the CURDS. Rather than extend the
benefits to all participants in the CSRS, the view was expressed that
there should have been some demonstration of mobility during Agency
service, either by PCS or TDT away from the Headquarters area.
4. In line with the above, and pursuant to the authority delegated
to you by the Director of Central Intelligence on 5 October 1967, it is
recommended that you determine it to be necessary for the proper admin-
istration of all employees of the Agency to extend the same retiree and
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ts as are now provided for participants in the CIA
*ability System to those participants in the Civil
ent System who have served a minimum of 365 days
Continental United States, either on a permanent change of
ststtoa or tetrporary duty basis, such benefits to apply to those who
rstIre an or after 31 December 1970.
The reconmendation contained
In paragraph 4 is approved.,
Executive Director-Comptroller
Diet/ utIon:
Orig Addressee (for re urn to DDS)
Ex. Dir. Cornpt.
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I - Director of Personnel
I - Director of Finance
1 DDS
R. L. Bannerman
Deputy Director
for Support
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20 July 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Support
Bob:
1. In accordance with our conversation, I attempted to
locate a copy of the draft death and retiree travel benefit paper
which you saw earlier. Unfortunately, it has been destroyed.
However, the key points that were included in that paper, as you
saw it, dealing with the distinction between our employees and
Civil Service employees were as follows:
a. Our Early Retirement Policy. You are well aware
that a goodly number of people when age 60 comes around
request extensions using the argument that this is not in
accord with the Civil Service Retirement law and that it
was not our policy when they were hired, thus we have
changed the rules and are granting them less than Civil
Service Retirement benefits.
b. The Director's Termination Authority under 102(c).
Here again it can be argued that our employees are denied
the rights accorded normal Civil Service in connection with
RIFs and other terminations, such appeal rights being
granted them under Veterans' Preference as well as the
Lloyd-LaFolette Act both of which permit them to have
their appeals heard outside of their agency.
c. The Requirement that Our People Be Willing to Serve
Anywhere in the World. Granted this is not 100 per cent true,
it is a requirement placed on the vast majority, if not most,
of our people.
d. The restrictions which the Agency has determined
are necessary which we do place on our people in various
fields such as: (1) clearance of speeches and writings; (2)
reports of contacts with newspaper people; (3) restrictions
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on marriage to aliens; (4) reporting of association with
certain foreign personnel; (5) restrictions on outside
activities. A specialist in taxes at IRS can be a university
professor or give lectures on that subject. Certainly we
would not permit our tax expert to lecture on taxes in an
open forum. There are many similar restrictions which
are not applicable in other Government agencies.
2. I have not attempted to spell all of the above out in detail
since you are well aware of the import of these various points. The
sum total would certainly seem to support the argument that our people
serve their careers under different conditions than normal Civil Service.
In fact, the conditions are all on the negative side insofar as the emplove.a-
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is concerned. He gets less, not more, leaving aside of course the
intangibles of job satisfaction, etc.
79E-INS. yTARNER
Dryty General Counsel
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