Andrew Kenny v. Robert E. Hampton, Chairman, United States Civil Service Commission

PER CURIAM;

Appellants are three former federal employees who, prior to October 1, 1956, voluntarily left the civil service before reaching the age of sixty-two. 1 Each having spent more than five but less than twenty years in creditable service, the Civil Service Retirement Act of 1930 (Act) then entitled them to elect to receive either (1) a present lump sum settlement or (2) a deferred annuity beginning at age sixty-two. Each elected to receive the deferred annuity. In 1958 and 1965 Congress enacted cost-of-living annuity increases, amending the Act to adjust certain civil service annuities…