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Service Retirement Act. They paid contributions under that Act and were accruing credits continuously. With respect to the compensation received by them for night work at the Railway Express Agency, they were subject to the Railroad Retirement Act and had deductions from pay under two Acts. Such persons will ultimately draw two annuities, one from the Civil Service Commission, and one from the Railroad Retirement Board, on the basis of these separate although contemporaneous employments. 

There are each day tens of thousands of persons who are simultaneously covered by the Old Age and Survivors Insurance system and by the Railroad Retirement Act.

If Congress should enact a retirement system for air line pilots along the lines now set out, they would be covered simultaneously (for both credits and taxes) by the Old Age and Survivors Insurance system of Title II of the Social Security Act and by the air line pilots system. In order to remove them from OASI coverage, the pilots' system would need specific language to that effect. 

A pilot flying for the Civil Aeronautics Administration is, of course, not a pilot within the meaning of the proposed pilots' retirement system. If the definition of "pilot" should be changed and Congress should enact such legislation, then specific coverage under the pilots' retirement act would operate to exclude such a pilot from the Civil Service Retirement Act under which he would otherwise be covered. That is not now proposed. 

The pilots' bill provides for elimination of any duplication between military service credits during the war period and any free pensions which might be paid on the basis of the same service. The details of this are specifically worked out in the bill, just as in the case of the Railroad Retirement Act, and will be governed by that rather than by any general rule from any other source.