Quick Facts: CSRS

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What is considered covered service in CSRS?

Primary Position whose primary duties are: 

Firefighters

  • To perform work directly connected with controlling and extinguishing fires; OR 
      
  • Maintenance and use of firefighter apparatus and equipment.

Law Enforcement Officers

Investigating, apprehending, or detaining individuals suspected or convicted of offenses against the criminal laws of the United States. 


Secondary Position whose primary duties are: 

Clearly in the firefighting or law enforcement field; 

In an organization having a firefighting or law enforcement mission; 

and 

Is either: 

  1. Supervisory - primary duties are as a first-level supervisor of firefighters or law enforcement officers in primary positions; or 
      
  2. Administrative - executive, managerial, technical, semi-professional, or professional position for which experience in a primary firefighting or law enforcement position (or equivalent experience outside the Federal government) is a MANDATORY PREREQUISITE. (5 C.F.R 831.902 (ii)).

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