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§ 7298.
Retirement Fund
(a)
There is established in the Treasury a fund known as the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Retirement Fund.
(b)
Amounts in the fund are available for the payment of judges’ retired pay under section 7296 of this title and of annuities, refunds, and allowances under section 7297 of this title.
(c)
Amounts deposited by, or deducted and withheld from the salary and retired pay of, a judge under section 7296 or 7297 of this title shall be deposited in the fund and credited to an individual account of the judge.
(d)
The chief judge of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims shall submit to the President an annual estimate of the expenditures and appropriations necessary for the maintenance and operation of the fund, and such supplemental and deficiency estimates as may be required from time to time for the same purposes, according to law.
(e)
(1)
The chief judge may cause periodic examinations of the retirement fund to be made by an actuary, who may be an actuary employed by another department of the Government temporarily assigned for the purpose.
(2)
(A)
Subject to the availability of appropriations, there shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the retirement fund, not later than the close of each fiscal year, such amounts as may be required to reduce to zero the unfunded liability (if any) of the fund. Such deposits shall be taken from sums available for that fiscal year for the payment of the expenses of the Court.
(B)
For purposes of subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, the term “unfunded liability”, with respect to any fiscal year, means the amount estimated by the chief judge to be equal to the excess (as of the close of that fiscal year) of—
(i)
the present value of all benefits payable from the fund (determined on an annual basis in accordance with
For purpose of section 255(g)(1)(B) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 905(g)(1)(B)), the retirement fund shall be treated in the same manner as the Claims Judges’ Retirement Fund.
(Added Pub. L. 101–94, title I, § 101(a), Aug. 16, 1989, 103 Stat. 625, § 4098; renumbered § 7298 and amended Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1), (d)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238, 239; Pub. L. 105–368, title V, §§ 502, 512(a)(1), (2)(C), Nov. 11, 1998, 112 Stat. 3340, 3341; Pub. L. 106–117, title X, § 1011(j), Nov. 30, 1999, 113 Stat. 1589.)
cite as: 38 USC 7298