{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/press-releases/lankford-fetterman-want-to-bring-clarity-to-federal-retirement-pension-for-federal-law-enforcement/", "Lankford,\u00a0Fetterman\u00a0Want to Bring Clarity to Federal Retirement Pension for Federal Law Enforcement", "2026-04-14", "2026", "2026-04", "Republican", "Senate", "OK", "James Lankford", "L000575", "www.lankford.senate.gov", "lankford", "https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "page_html", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 US Senators James Lankford (R-OK), John Fetterman (D-PA), Chair and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Border Management, Federal Workforce and Regulatory Affairs reintroduced the Retirement Annuity Supplement Clarity Act, which addresses the way the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) calculates retirement annuity settlements for federal employees, primarily for federal law enforcement personnel, who have a settlement agreements dividing their annuity.\n\n\u201cLaw enforcement officers are protecting us at the southern border and around the country and should be able to focus on their mission, not on bureaucratic decisions complicating their retirement calculations,\u201d said Lankford. \u201cOur commonsense proposal solves a long-standing discrepancy with how annuities are calculated for some of our law enforcement personnel and gives OPM maximum clarity for how Congress wants them to handle these payments. This ensures courts\u2019 explicit orders are followed when dividing annuity supplement payments, so retirees and the courts decide how settlements are carried out, not OPM.\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve always been proud to support those who put their life on the line every day\u2014they represent the very best of us,\u201d said Fetterman. \u201cThis bill is about playing it fair and making sure our federal law enforcement officers get the retirement benefits they worked hard for. I\u2019m proud to join Senator Lankford in doing right by those who served our communities to keep us all safe.\u201d\n\n\u201cFor nearly a decade, federal retirees were subjected to OPM\u2019s unlawful reinterpretation of the law regarding the division of a Retirement Annuity Supplement that jeopardized their financial security and ignored settled court orders,\u201d said National President Mat Silverman of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. \u201cLast year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit made clear that OPM overstepped its authority\u2014but court rulings alone are not enough. That is why FLEOA is grateful for the leadership of Sens. Lankford and Fetterman in reintroducing the \u2018Retirement Annuity Supplement Clarity Act\u2019 to permanently protect retirees, restore what was wrongly taken, and ensure that no future OPM can again rewrite the law at the expense of those who served.\u201d\n\nBackground\n\nThe Retirement Annuity Supplement Clarity Act clarifies that OPM has the flexibility to comply with a court order that divides the annuity supplement. The bill repays annuitants who were retired on or before June 30, 2016, and entitled to an annuity supplement subject to a court order that was silent on division of the supplement or expressly excluded the supplement from division, and whose annuity supplement was recomputed retroactively. Additionally, the bill clarifies that any collection of overpayments to former spouses due to this recalculation is waived.\n\n###", 1, "2026-04-15T05:46:42Z", "2026-04-15T05:48:27Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/press-releases/lankford-fetterman-want-to-bring-clarity-to-federal-retirement-pension-for-federal-law-enforcement/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0341447778046131, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}