Q. I have been receiving workers’ compensation since 1977 as a partially permanently disabled person. Four years ago, I started getting Social Security disability, so the two combined is still not much. The Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs sent me a letter that my workers’ comp check may be reduced because I am turning 62. I only get $400 from them and my SSD amount is not changing, as it is just going to be called Social Security now instead of SSD. Same amount of stipend, so why are they taking away what little bit I get? Nothing has changed…
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Q. I will be retiring on Jan. 3 with 41 years and two days of creditable service under CSRS. In addition, I have 3,519 hours (approximately 20 months) of unused sick leave. I am under the belief that my unused sick leave would be added to my years of service which would allow me to receive 80 percent of my high-3 years of salary. Would this be an accurate statement? My employee and labor relations department is telling me that I would only receive 78 percent of my high-3 because I needed 41 years and 11 months of actual service…
Q. I am an employee under FERS. How will my approximately 700 hours of unused sick leave count toward my total service when I retire in 2014? My service computation date is March 3, 1994, and I will be 62 years old when I plan to retire in March. If I retire Jan. 10, will my 700 hours of unused sick hours count toward my desired target of 20+ years of service, or must I wait until March 3 to hit the 20-year threshold?
Q. I am a FERS employee and plan on retiring March 31, 2014. Can you provide any guidance on whether this would be a good date to retire, or do you advise earlier in the year?
Q. If my estimate states I will have six months and 16 days of sick leave when I retire in March, will I lose those 16 days? I was under the impression that your sick leave was figured in 30-day increments.
Q. When I take Voluntary Early Retirement Authority/Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay and I have annual leave, are they combined into one lump sum for tax purposes, or are they separate?
Q. I plan to retire at the end of February. In January, I will receive 208 hours of use-or-lose leave. Will I be able to use the 208 hours or only get the days until I retire in February?
Q. I have been on sick leave most of the year. I have 205 hours of use-or-lose annual leave. Is my agency required to carry this over since I was unable to use the annual?
Q. I am a CSRS re-employed annuitant. I retired in December 2007 with three months of sick leave, which was counted as time in service. I plan on retiring again with five additional years in service in December. My human resources department told me the sick leave should have been given back to me when I returned to work. It wasn’t, and my payroll department is trying to get it back. Should I get it back, since the sick leave was considered time in service for me?
Q. I expect to receive a lump-sum payment for annual leave accumulated in 2012-13 in 2014. When should that lump sum be taxed?