---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4069"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4069"
heading: "Thrift Savings Fund participation"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4069"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Foreign Service Retirement and Disability"
  - "Part I — Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System"
---

# §4069. Thrift Savings Fund participation


Participants in this System shall be deemed to be [employees](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1) for the purposes of [section 8351 of title 5](/usc/5/8351.md). Any reference in such [section 8351](/usc/5/8351.md) or in subchapter III of [chapter 84](/usc/22/ch84.md) of such title 5 to retirement or separation under subchapter III of [chapter 83](/usc/22/ch83.md) or [chapter 84](/usc/22/ch84.md) of such title 5 shall be deemed to be references to retirement or separation under part I or II of this subchapter with similar benefits or entitlements with respect to participants under such part I or II, respectively.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 829, as added Pub. L. 99–556, title IV, § 404(a), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3137.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1987, see section 408 of Pub. L. 99–556, set out as an Effective Date of 1986 Amendment note under section 4046 of this title.