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Veterans Preference Field Instruction

Veterans Preference

Select the employee’s category of entitlement to preference in the Federal service based on military service that terminated honorably from the drop-down list. For a list of valid codes, see the Veterans Preference Table.
‎Complete the Agency Use field as follows for NOACs 300 through 304, 312, 350, 356, and 976.

‎Military Retired Pay Recipient-Military Retired Waiver

‎Y-Y, N, U
‎N-N
‎U-U

‎If the NOAC applies to one of the codes listed above and data is not entered in the Agency Use field, the pay plan must be FE, FO, or FP.