TSP Features for Civilians

Chapter 2 Certain Other Employees

Other persons can also participate in the TSP, for example:

Civilian Participants

• Individuals on approved leave without pay to serve as full-time officers or employees of certain unions or other employee organizations

• Individuals assigned from a Federal agency to a state or local government under an Intergovernmental Personnel Act assignment who choose to retain FERS or CSRS coverage

• Individuals appointed or otherwise assigned to one of the Cooperative Extension Services, as defined by the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977

• Federal justice and judges, certain Federal bankruptcy judges and magistrate judges, Claims Court judges, and Court of Veteran Appeals judges

• Nonappropriated Fund employees of the Defense Department or the U.S. Coast Guard who have chosen to be covered by FERS or CSRS.

Members of these groups generally participate under the rules for either FERS or CSRS employees.  If you are a member of one of these groups, you should check with your personnel office to learn which rules apply.

Uniformed Services Participants

On October 30, 2000, the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (Public Law 106-398) was signed.  One provision of the law extended participation in the TSP, which was originally only for Federal civilian employees, to members of the uniformed services.  The uniformed services include:

• Department of the Army

• Department of the Navy

• Department of the Air Force

• United States Marine Corps

• United States Coast Guard

• Public Health Service

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

More information concerning members of the uniformed services can be found in the Summary of the Thrift Savings Plan for the Uniformed Services.

Edited on February 10, 2004