Q. If I retire with 27 days of unused sick leave, and I started government service on the sixth day of the month, will that mean that a month of service will be added to my years of service? I understand that anything under one month of sick leave will be dropped, but am unclear about whether the day you started affects the calculation. The chart does not seem to address this.
A. Annuities are calculated using years and full months of service. Any days that don’t add up to a full month are converted to hours and added to any hours of unused sick leave. The total is then converted to retirement months. For annuity computation purposes, approximately 174 hours equals one month. Any hours that don’t add up to a retirement month are dropped.
