Treatment of overtime supplement as basic pay
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Regularly scheduled overtime pay within an agent's regular tour of duty is treated as part of basic pay or basic salary only for the following purposes:
(a) 5 U.S.C. 5524a and 5 CFR part 550, subpart B, pertaining to advances in pay;
(b) 5 U.S.C. 5595(c) and 5 CFR part 550, subpart G, pertaining to severance pay;
(c) 5 U.S.C. 8114(e), pertaining to workers' compensation;
(d) 5 U.S.C. 8331(3) and 5 U.S.C. 8401(4) and related provisions that rely on the definition in those paragraphs, pertaining to retirement benefits;
(e) Subchapter III of chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, pertaining to the Thrift Savings Plan;
(f) 5 U.S.C. 8704(c), pertaining to life insurance; and
(g) For any other purposes explicitly provided for by law or as the Office of
Personnel Management may prescribe by other regulation.
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