P.L. 95-250, Approved March 27, 1978 (92 Stat. 163)

[Redwood National Park]

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DEFINITIONS

Sec. 201.[None Assigned]

As used in this title, the term—

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(19) Notwithstanding^[1] any other provision of this Act, the Secretary shall reduce the amount of terminal pay for an employee, as calculated pursuant to section 207, 208, or 209, by the amount of the Federal and State income taxes which would be required to be withheld by an employer from wages equal to such terminal pay if paid to an employee with the same number of income tax exemptions as the recipient. For purposes of determining the amounts of such reductions with respect to severance payments made pursuant to sections 208 and 209, said severance payments shall be prorated over the number of weeks the equivalent sums would have been paid if the employees were eligible for and claiming the weekly layoff benefits provided in section 207. The Secretary shall withhold social security contributions from terminal pay in the same amounts as would be withheld if such pay (before the reductions provided for in this subsection) were wages and the Secretary shall make contributions on behalf of employees receiving terminal pay to the trust funds created under section 201 of the Social Security Act equal to the contributions required to be made by an employer paying wages equal to such unreduced terminal pay; and

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Sec. 204.[None Assigned]

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(b) The Secretary shall provide, additionally, for continuing entitlement to health and welfare benefits (other than group life and additional death, dismemberment, and loss of sight benefits) for employees who—

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(4) are not eligible for benefits under title XVIII of the Social Security Act.

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[Internal References.—SSAct Title XVIII and §201 headings have footnotes referring to P.L. 95-250.]

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^[1] As in original. Possibly should be “notwithstanding”.

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