Q. I just received my federal retirement benefits statement from human resources. I noticed that my prior service (federal law enforcement officer April 16, 1984 to Sept. 27, 1986) is listed as CSRS Offset. I took my current job (federal law enforcement officer March 23, 1987-present) and am covered under FERS. According to the Federal Erroneous Retirement Coverage Correction Act, shouldn’t I have been offered CSRS coverage instead of FERS?
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Q. I will be a 37-year, 55-year-old retiree under CSRS and will be retiring in October 2015. I know I have unfunded service time early in my postal career. Casual, Emergency Rural Sub, etc. And I understand that I can fill out a SF-2803 to find out about payment for those unfunded years. If I do nothing, will the Office of Personnel Management automatically generate a statement for me either during my retirement process, or soon thereafter letting me know of this amount in hopes to raise my annuity by that amount?
Q. I am 59 with 29 years of service under FERS. I have a service computation date of Dec. 17, 1983, due to other part-time work with the government. I started with the government in May 1984 on this job. Am I allowed to buy back and make deposits toward this time? Is there any way I can change over to CSRS? I don’t remember begin given a choice.
Q. Retirement credit includes full years of service plus whole months (30 days). When sick leave is fully credited for retirement longevity in January 2014, can the days of work service, not amounting to a whole month, be added to the sick leave balance for longevity credit? For example, suppose you have 29 years and 20 days of work and 1,927 hours of sick leave. Can the 20 days be converted into hours (i.e., 160 hours) and then these 160 hours be added to the 1,927 hours of accumulated sick leave (1,927 + 160 = 2,087)? If so, because 2,087…
Q. As you know, as of the first of next year, FERS people get 100 percent of their unused sick leave, putting us on same footing as CSRS. Problem is, we’re not CSRS, so we don’t know how they get that. We hear it’s tacked on to end of service, but then we hear retirement date is retirement date, not that plus unused sick leave. So, do we get a lump sum or just keep getting paid for that time as if we were still here?
Q. I worked for the Army Corps of Engineers for four years then took a job with the state of Wisconsin. At that time, I had to leave my retirement in the federal system and as far as I know, it is still there. Or is it? I’m interested in using those years to add to my retirement with Wisconsin. Would that transfer to the state without my having to buy them, or do I still have to buy those years back even though I never took them out?
Q. I am planning on retiring from CSRS at the end of this year. I will be 56 years old and have a little more than 32 years of government service. 1. I currently show 150 hours of use-or-lose annual leave on my last pay stub. If I go into the end of the year and retire with use-or-lose leave on the books, will I get paid for it? Or do I need to burn up the use-or-lose leave before I retire? 2. As I look at the 2013 calendar, to retire at the true end of the payroll year,…
Q. I was in the Army for eight years. After I got out, I spent 15 years in the National Guard. I got a job with the Postal Service. Now that I am 60, I applied for retirement with the Guard and they used the eight years for my retirement. I bought the eight years back when I joined the Postal Service. Can I use the eight years for the Postal Service retirement also?
Q. I am retired military receiving a military pension. I am now in a federal government job under FERS. In September 2015, I will have five years of creditable service and will be 61 years old. My birthday is in November. I believe I am beyond my minimum retirement age. I would like expert confirmation on what I think to be true. If I submit for deferred retirement once I have the five years of service (September 2015), I should receive an annuity beginning on Dec. 1, 2015 (just after my 62nd birthday in November 2015), and my military pension…
Q. I recently returned to the federal government, and have 21 months in my current return. My total federal service will be 22 years in October. I had an on-the-job injury while with the Postal Service, and this injury has gotten worse since a car accident and surgery (I work for the Department of Veterans Affairs). I do not know how much longer I can work (pain, medication, etc). Am I qualified for disability retirement with medical benefits, even though my current return to federal service is less than five years?