[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 699]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR550.705]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 550--PAY ADMINISTRATION (GENERAL)--Table of Contents
 
                        Subpart G--Severance Pay
 
Sec. 550.705  Criteria for meeting the requirement for 12 months of continuous employment.

    (a) The requirement for 12 months of continuous employment is met 
if, on the date of separation, an employee has held one or more civilian 
Federal positions over a period of 12 months without a single break in 
service of more than 3 calendar days. The positions held must have been 
under:
    (1) One or more qualifying appointments;
    (2) One or more nonqualifying temporary appointments that precede 
the current qualifying appointment; or
    (3) An appointment to a position in a nonappropriated fund 
instrumentality of the Department of Defense or the Coast Guard that 
precedes the current qualifying appointment in the Department of Defense 
or the Coast Guard, respectively.
    (b) When a break in service that is covered by severance pay 
interrupts otherwise continuous Federal employment, the entire period is 
considered continuous service.
    (c) The period during which an employee receives continuation of pay 
or compensation for an injury on the job under chapter 81 of title 5, 
United

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States Code, is considered continuous Federal service.

[55 FR 6593, Feb. 26, 1990, as amended at 57 FR 12405, Apr. 10, 1992]