OFFICE OF PERSONNEL CHECKLIST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R002003820016-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2007
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: June 3, 1983
• Content Type: REPORT

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Office of Personnel Checklist
Social Security Legislation.
'The Executive Director, DDCI and DCI have approved our recommendation
to change Agency strategy concerning Social Security coverage for employees
entering the work force after 1 January 1984. Previously, our plan was. to
seek an amendment to the CIA Retirement and Disability System to cover all
Agency employees while maintaining the differences in benefits for those
currently under Civil Service Retirement and those eligible for the
preferred CIARDS coverage. The intent was' to avoid the impact of the
recent Social Security-Reform: Act` and- to :.put. prospective employees under
retirement and not Social Security.
After a full discussion with staff members of the Senate Select
Committee, we reported our i,ew that any effort to get out from under
Social Securit~r _i d not futile; worse, it could- be counter--productive
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-an-d-actu-all-yharm our attempt to develop a special supplemental system, -- --
Our recommendation, now approved, was to witFtdraw that effort and to
concentrate our efforts on developing a supplemental system that would
preserve the Agency's historical early retirement policy-
Our working group, in discussing strategy to be e--prayed now,. believes
that our approach should be one that reiterates the importance that our.
,retirement-policy-'has had- for 25 years and"-that the ideal solution would -
be to exclude our new hires from the impact of Social Security coverage- -
Recognizing the political realities of such an exclusion in the face of the
pressures encountered by the Congress earlier this year,, we believe that if
the Congress could not authorize an exclusion, their fullest support would
be needed for a supplemental system that would permit the Agency to maintain
its policy of encouraging retirements at ages earlier than elsewhere in.
the government.
We plan to meet-with the Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence to express this view and to discuss hoar best to proceed with
the supplemental plan.
Our group also discussed the trong possibility that the Administration
may not submit its design of a supplements system t i_ is year.. If it does not,
r~rf-the-Congress woes no_t deve op su p an iself , this means that in
.January new hires would be covered by1-ot i`th-e Ci- VJ t... v ce ei tzrement
]System and S 1 Securit . This creates the possibility that the unions
may attempt again to repeal Social Security coverage- Their argument could
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be that new workers are paying considerably more than the existing work
force. The more serious implication of inaction is that in developing o r
supplemental system, timing could be an extremely irapc^rtaret factor- r this
we mean that we should consider not proposing a supplemental system before
the-Administration s-elf designs such sysL~ea~t+Te shourd~