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+title: "5 U.S.C. § 8471"
+description: "Definitions"
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+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 5
+title_name: "GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES"
+chapter_number: "84"
+chapter_name: "FEDERAL EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM"
+section: "8471"
+citation: "5 U.S.C. § 8471"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
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+---
+
+# 5 U.S.C. § 8471 - Definitions
+
+## Text
+
+For the purposes of this subchapter—
+
+(1) the term “beneficiary” means an individual (other than a participant) entitled to payment from the Thrift Savings Fund under subchapter III of this chapter;
+
+(2) the term “Council” means the Employee Thrift Advisory Council established under section 8473 of this title;
+
+(3) the term “participant” means an individual for whom an account has been established under section 8439 of this title;
+
+(4) the term “person” means an individual, partnership, joint venture, corporation, mutual company, joint-stock company, trust, estate, unincorporated organization, association, or labor organization; and
+
+(5) the term “Thrift Savings Fund” means the Thrift Savings Fund established under section 8437 of this title.
+
+(Added Pub. L. 99–335, title I, § 101(a), June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 577.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
+
+Effective DateSubchapter VII effective June 6, 1986, see section 702(b)(1) of Pub. L. 99–335, set out as a note under section 8401 of this title.