of the United States Federal Civil Service (also expatriate), with expatriate benefits being taken into consideration on both sides. If the General Assembly was prepared to accept that position, the Commission could spread the study over a period and thereby reduce the costs by dispensing with outside assistance. 36. Of the many representatives who had spoken about the level of pensionable remuneration, some had criticized the system of basing it on the weighted average of post adjustments (WAPA) and one of them had suggested replacing that system and freezing the level of pensionable remuneration. The General Assembly could of course decide that the individual benefits should be studied separately, but it would be easier for it to examine the total compensation, to compare it with that of the best paid national civil service and to decide what the margin should be. As to the use of WAPA, he recalled that in 1980 the General ASsembly had approved, with effect from 1 January 1981, the dual indexing of pensionable remuneration, under which the level of remuneration for purposes of calculating contributions (PR/C level) was not allowed to fall below that for purposes of calculating benefits (PlVP level). In compliance with that rule, the PR/C level had been adjusted twice owing to the fact that, while WAPA had moved by only 2.4 per cent between January 1981 and July 1983, the rise in the United States consumer price index (CPI) had had the effect of increasing the remuneration amounts for the two purposes described by some 16 per cent. For WAPA to play any role in effecting an increase in the PR/C, it would have to go up by more than 20 per cent, which was not very likely in view of the continued strength of the United States dollar. 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the pensionable remuneration of expatriate employees of the United States Federal Civil Service, with a focus on the weighted average of post adjustments (WAPA) and the impact of inflation on remuneration amounts. The language used is technical and bureaucratic, suggesting a topic related to employment or compensation.

**Category**
Employment