38 U.S.C. § 5305
Section 5305 · Waiver of retired pay
Amended 6 times on record
Applied in 44 court decisions — leading case Johnson v. Johnson (2001)
Most recently applied in Martin v. Martin (December 2022)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Except as provided in section 1414 of title 10, any person who is receiving pay pursuant to any provision of law providing retired or retirement pay to persons in the Armed Forces, or as a commissioned officer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or of the Public Health Service, and who would be eligible to receive pension or compensation under the laws administered by the Secretary if such person were not receiving such retired or retirement pay, shall be entitled to receive such pension or compensation upon the filing by such person with the department by which such retired or retirement pay is paid of a waiver of so much of such person's retired or retirement pay as is equal in amount to such pension or compensation. To prevent duplication of payments, the department with which any such waiver is filed shall notify the Secretary of the receipt of such waiver, the amount waived, and the effective date of the reduction in retired or retirement pay.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Amendments
2004—Pub. L. 108–454 substituted “Except as provided in section 1414 of title 10, any” for “Any” in first sentence.
1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 3105 of this title as this section.
Pub. L. 102–83, §4(a)(2)(A)(viii), substituted “Secretary” for “Veterans’ Administration”.
Pub. L. 102–83, §4(a)(1), substituted “administered by the Secretary” for “administered by the Veterans’ Administration”.
1986—Pub. L. 99–576 substituted “such person” for “he” and “such person's” for “his”.
1970—Pub. L. 91–621 substituted “National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration” for “Coast and Geodetic Survey”.