PAYMENT OF RESIDENTS OF THE ARMED FORCES RETIREMENT HOME FOR SERVICES.

SEC. 385. PAYMENT OF RESIDENTS OF THE ARMED FORCES RETIREMENT HOME FOR SERVICES. (a) Authority.—Part A of the Armed Forces Retirement Home Act of 1991 (title XV of Public Law 101–510; 24 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: “SEC. 1521. PAYMENT OF RESIDENTS FOR SERVICES. “(a) Authority.—The Chairman of the Armed Forces Retirement Board is authorized to accept for the Armed Forces Retirement Home the part-time or intermittent services of a resident of the Retirement Home, to pay the resident for such services, and to fix the rate of such pay. “(b) Employment Status.—A resident receiving pay for services authorized under subsection (a) shall not, by reason of performing such services and receiving pay for such services, be considered as— “(1) receiving the pay of a position or being employed in a position for the purposes of section 5532 of title 5, United States Code; or “(2) being an employee of the United States for any other purpose. “(c) Definition.—In subsection (b)(1), the term ‘position’ has the meaning given that term in section 5531 of title 5, United States Code.”. (b) Forgiveness of Indebtedness.—The Chairman of the Armed Forces Retirement Board is authorized to cancel the indebtedness of any resident of the Armed Forces Retirement Home for repayment to the United States of amounts paid the resident for services provided to the Retirement Home before the date of the enactment of this Act if the Chairman determines that it would be in the interest of the United States to do so and against equity and good conscience to require the repayment.