Issue Position: Norton Bill Returns Lost Retirement Time to D.C. Employees Transferred to Federal Government

Issue Position

After trying for years to restore retirement time lost by former D.C. agency employees, Norton got her bill to restore the time attached to the Defense Authorization Act of 2010. The bill corrects a provision that seriously short-changed hundreds of employees who worked for D.C. agencies that were transferred to the federal government in 1997. Many employees had lost "creditable service," or years credited for retirement purposes, because the years they worked in the comparable District agencies prior to the federal transfers had not been credited. Norton's bill did not cost to the federal government anything.

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