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Federal Pensions: Judicial Survivors' Annuities System Costs and Benefit Levels

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date June 27, 1997
Report No. GGD-97-87
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Summary:

This report reviews the Judicial Survivors' Annuities System, which provides annuities to the surviving spouses and dependent children of deceased federal judges and other judicial officials. Legislation passed in 1992 enhanced the benefits available under the system and reduced the amounts that participating judges and other judicial officials were required to contribute toward the plan's costs. GAO is required to review the system's costs every three years and determine whether participants' contributions covered one-half of the costs. If the contributions are less than half of these costs, GAO must determine what adjustments would be needed to achieve the 50-percent figure. GAO is also required to compare the Judicial Survivors' Annuities System to the survivors' benefit plans for other federal workers.

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