Q. I was hired as a temporary employee with the Defense Department on Oct. 15, 1984, and received a permanent position in June 1985. Am I supposed to be under FERS or CSRS?
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Q. I am a stay-at-home father, and my wife is in the Navy. She has been in since 2006 and does not know if she is FERS or CSRS. Is there a way I could check it? We have the Thrift Savings Plan, and they just mention “uniformed services” when I search around.
Q. Where do you find the cost of health care premiums for Blue Cross federal for a rural carrier under FERS?
Q. Getting ready to retire next year. Using the Office of Personnel Management retirement calculator. When choosing what retirement system, it keeps telling me CSRS offset for my start date Oct. 24, 1984. However, I have been in FERS all along.
Q. I was a postal worker for 12 years when I was injured on the job in 2001 and am now collecting workers’ compensation. Would I receive any retirement benefits at age 65?
Q. I was hired May 1, 1984, under the former federal retirement system. On Jan. 1, 1987, I was transferred into FERS. Is my service between from May 1, 1984, to Dec. 31, 1987 still considered to be part of my FERS-covered service?
Q. Does my wife have to sign up for Medicare? If so, when does she have to sign up? And, if my wife does not sign up for Medicare, will she incur any penalty? Scenario: I am a working FERS employee, my wife still works and she is not a government employee. I have self-and-family Federal Employees Health Benefits coverage. I am not yet age 65. My wife will turn 65 this year.
Q. I am retiring at age 55. I will have 26 years of 6(c)-covered service and an additional two years of military for a total of 28 years. What is the maximum amount of special retirement supplement I can get as a military veteran?
Q. I am a FERS employee and have more than 650 hours of annual leave and over 2,000 hours of sick leave. I am 58 years old with 28 years of FERS service this year. Would I be able to cash out my annual leave when I stop working at the end of this year if I deferred my retirement until age 60 so I would not get penalized by 5 percent a year for retiring before 30 years of service?
Q. I have read a number of articles noting the best dates to retire in 2014. For example, I have seen March 22 and Dec. 28. As a GS-13 FERS employee who will have about 32 years of service at age 61 as of Dec. 28, does it really make that much of a difference to wait until Dec. 28 versus March 22 (at which time I will already be 60) in terms of my FERS annuity? I have about 1,800 hours of sick leave, have been maximizing my Thrift Savings Plan contribution most of my career, and I was…