Q. I am a CSRS-covered furloughed federal employee with 43 years of federal service. May I submit retirement papers during a furlough? Will the papers be processed after the shutdown ends?
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Q. I am presently active-duty Army. I enlisted in 1981. I had a break in service. I worked in the Postal Service for 10 years. I have a total of 19 active-duty years. How does that work as far as retiring from the Army? Can I retire from the Army now? If I do 20 years on active duty and retire from the Army, can I get credit for 30 years federal retirement time?
Q. I have prior CSRS service with a break in employment. I am now CSRS Offset. I did not get health insurance when I returned to service because I was covered by the Veterans Affairs Department. I picked it up during open season the following year. I can retire in two years at age 62. I will need one more year to have my five years to carry my health insurance into retirement for my disabled husband. The trouble is, I have terminal cancer. My life expectancy is two years. I hope to make it to retirement but worry beyond…
Q. I am under CSRS. My service computation date is Nov. 13, 1983. I have 34 Social Security quarters paid. Can I pay the remaining Social Security quarters in lump sum, or do I have to work to contribute? Will this be to my advantage?
Q. I have 28 years of service with the Internal Revenue Service. I would like to know the percentage rate of special retirement supplement if I retire at age 56. My date of birth is Feb. 23, 1963.
Q. I have been a federal employee since 1993 with the Veterans Affairs Department. Since 9/11, I have had five years of being called on orders to support operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and contingency operations. While I was on leave without pay during these five years, do I still get retirement credit? Meaning it is like I never left federal service. (My retirement year would be 2023 with 30 years.) Also, can I buy these five years of war time credit toward my retirement, so in 2023 I will have a total of 35 years of service credit?
Q. I was separated (resign or be fired) from the federal government in 2007 after more than 21 years of service. Twenty of those years were under FERS and the remainder were under CSRS. I was involuntarily converted to FERS in 1987. During 2007, I was not eligible for the MRA+10 retirement, but now I meet the requirements. I understand that I am eligible for an unreduced annuity at age 60. Can I wait until age 62 to receive a higher benefit amount? Do I get any credit for contributing to CSRS for one full year? How many months before…
Q. My projected CSRS creditable service is 37 years, five months and 12 days based on my projected retirement date of Jan. 2, 2014. Would it be to my advantage to work an additional 18 days or so to get to six months instead of five months?
Q. I was hired March 3, 1985, in a law enforcement position. When I was hired, I was covered under CSRS. I am now under FERS. Why?
Q. Since being employed with the federal government, I have been deployed twice in the National Guard. I have bought back all the military service. What effect does buying the military service time back have on the service computation date for annual leave accrual?