Q. I am a Postal Service employee under FERS. I originally planned to retire Nov. 28, 2014 to avoid another holiday season. First, can you retire with more than 440 hours of annual leave? Second, if I delay my retirement to the end of December and my annual leave is paid in January, will that lessen the taxes I would pay since my income would be less?
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Q. I was injured early in my federal career after 9½ years in public service at the state level. My workers’ compensation was approved, and I spent two years on OWCP (June 2004 to June 2006) before I was able to return to work. I worked part time for two years in the interim (2007-09, private sector) before locating a new federal position. Because the injury resulted in permanent disability and I couldn’t go back to my original job, I returned in a different GS series. Can the two years I spent on OWCP be credited toward my federal service…
Q. I recently went back to work as a federal employee with the Veterans Affairs Department. When I retired through Department of the Army, I was a GS-9 Step 4 with more than 27 years of total federal service. In addition, during my tenure, I worked with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service as a GS-8 that was within the same job series 0990. Thus far, VA has not given me credit for my total service time, whereupon they set my service computation date up as Jan. 27, 2013. I was hired into a GS-7 position on that date, and they…
Q. I am a federal firefighter on emergency leave due to an ill family member. Because my department did not approve my leave without pay for a second time within the year (the first one was approved for six months), my department is requiring that I return to Hawaii (I am in Los Angeles caring for my father). Why can’t I just resign by mail? Flying to Hawaii just to sign a couple of forms seems ridiculous to me — especially when it will cost me over $1,000 to do so, in addition to leaving my father alone without care.…
Q. Can unused sick leave be added to actual service time to meet the 30-year threshold to be eligible for the special retirement supplement at my minimum retirement age?
Q. If I resign from the federal government, what happens to my sick leave?
Q. I have scheduled my use-or-lose leave and have been approved. If I am not able to use it at the time it is scheduled, will I be able to use it in January after the cut off time to use your use-or-lose?
Q. I am 55. I wish to stop working for the government in three years, when I will be 58. I will have 26 years under FERS. I have approximately 2,000 hours of sick leave. Can I defer my retirement and submit for retirement at age 60? Would I lose my sick time, or would it be credited?
Q. I am a FERS employee. I am 57 with 26 years of service. 1. Do I get annuity computation for sick leave? If so, how is it computed? 2. I was born in 1956. What is my minimum retirement age, and how much service should I have under the MRA? 3. What happens with my annual and sick leave when I retire? 4. When should I start preparing my paperwork for my retirement? 5. My agency is going through a reorganization. We have the options for early retirement, buyout, being reassigned to New York or Boston (I live in…
Q. My planned retirement date is Jan. 11. Will I forfeit my use-or-lose leave?