RETIREMENT ISSUES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M01152R000200170008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 24, 2009
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 3, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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3 April 1985
OLL: 85-0826
MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director
VIA: Director, Office of Legislative Liaison
FROM: Deputy Director, Office of Legislative Liaison
SUBJECT: Retirement Issues
1. The recent OMB signal encouraging the "expansion" of
CIARDS to cover all Agency employees raises a series of concerns
about what the Agency might wish to do, and what legislative
actions will be required to achieve our goals. The following
comments are intended to provoke further thinking, discussion,
and decision on these matters.
2. Expanding CIARDS poses several issues. Do we wish to
have two divisions within CIARDS with perhaps different
qualifications and different age standards and benefits? Is it
our intention that personnel currently in the Civil Service
System will automatically be transferred into CIARDS, or will
they have a choice of staying in the Civil Service System? Do
we intend that a new and expanded CIARDS system will apply to
all new employees who have been employed since 1 January 19?4?
If so, do we intend to attempt to remove them legislatively from
Social Security coverage which they are now under, or are we
going to seek some way to prevent them from having to put
fifteen or more percent of their salaries toward retirement?
3. Assuming a positive answer to three of the above
questions--we Will seek an expanded CIARDS to (-over all
employees; it will apply to new employees as well as oldi; ir;d w
will seek to terminate Social Security coverage for new
employees--two legislative fixes are required. We need too oorlend
CIARDS, and we need to emend the bill Congress passed in P )P3
which put new Federal employees under Social Security beginninc;
1 January 1984.
4. Changing CIARDS would appear to be the easier of the two
tasks. Jurisdiction over CIARDS is with the Intelligence
Committees although we can expect other committees may attempt
to get in on the act. If we can convince HPSCI and SSCI Of our
case, we should succeed.
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5. Changing the Social Security coverage will pose a real
problem. Government unions would all like to abolish this law
in order to assure continuation of the present Civil Service
System. And jurisdiction on this will not be principally with
our Committees.
6. I do not believe we can change the Social Security law
without strong support from the Administration, the Intelligence
and Appropriations Committees, and no serious opposition from
other Federal agencies or the labor unions. This is almost too
much to hope for.
cc: DDA
D/OP
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