106 STAT. 3222 PUBLIC LAW 102-496—OCT. 24, 1992 "(4) TERMINATION OF DISABILITY ANNurry. —Payment of the annuity shall continue until a date one year after the date of examination showing recovery or until the date of reinstatement or reappointment in the Agency, whichever is earlier. "(5) PAYMENT OF FEES. — Fees for examinations under this subsection, together with reasonable traveling and other expenses incurred in order to submit to examination, may be paid out of the fund. "(6) SUSPENSION OF ANNUITY PENDING REQUIRED EXAMINA- TION.— If the annuitant fails to submit to examination as required under this section, payment of the annuity shall be suspended until continuance of the disability is satisfactorily established. "(7) TERMINATION OF ANNUITY UPON RESTORATION OF EARN- ING CAPACITY. —If the annuitant receiving a disability retirement annuity is restored to earning capacity before becoming age 60, payment of the annuity terminates on reemployment by the Government or 180 days after the end of the calendar year in which earning capacity is restored, whichever is earlier. Earning capacity shall be considered to be restored if in any calendar year the income of the annuitant from wages or self- employment, or both, equals at least 80 percent of the current rate of pay for the grade and step the annuitant held at the time of retirement. "(d) TREATMENT OF RECOVERED DISABILITY ANNUITANT WHO IS NOT REINSTATED.— •*(1) SEPARATION.—If a recovered or restored disability annuitant whose annuity is discontinued is for any reason not reinstated or reappointed in the Agency, the annuitant shall be considered, except for service credit, to have been separated within the meaning of section 234 as of the date of termination of the disability annuity. "(2) RETIREMENT.— After such termination, the recovered or restored annuitant shall be entitled to the benefits of section 234 or 241(b), except that the annuitant may elect voluntary retirement under section 233, if qualified thereunder, or may be placed by the Director in an involuntary retirement status under section 235(a), if qualified thereunder. Retirement rights under this paragraph snail be based on the provisions of this title in effect as of the date on which the disability annuity is discontinued. "(3) FURTHER DISABILITY BEFORE AGE 62. —If, based on a current medical examination, the Director determines that a recovered annuitant has, before reaching age 62, again become totally disabled due to recurrence of the disability for which the annuitant was originally retired, the annuitant's terminated disability annuity (same type and rate) shall be reinstated from the date of such medical examination. If a restored-to- eaming-capacity annuitant has not medically recovered from the disability for which retired and establishes to the Director's satisfaction that the annuitant's income from wages and self- employment in any calendar year before reaching age 62 was less than 80 percent of the rate of pay for the grade and step the annuitant held at the time of retirement, the annuitant's terminated disability annuity (same type and rate) shall be reinstated from the first of the next following year. If the annuitant has been allowed an involuntary or voluntary retire-
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