Reduction of Retirement Age for Gray Area Retirees

Section 647 Under Title 10, reduces the age for receipt of retired pay by three months for each aggregate of 90 days of “specified duty’ performed in any fiscal year after the date the bill became law (28 January 2008).  “Specified duty” includes active duty (excluding active duty for training) or “active service” under Title 10 USC Sections 688, 12301(a), 12301(d), 12302, 12304, 12305, and 12306 and Title 32 USC, Section 502(f), if responding to a national emergency declared by the President or supported by federal funds.  Retired pay eligibility age cannot be reduced below age 50, however, eligibility for retiree health care benefits remains at age 60.