Q. I am in FERS with slightly more than 20 years of creditable service. Several months ago, you advised a former judicial law clerk, who had served in the 1980s, that he/she could obtain credit for his/her service. In 1991-92, I served as a law clerk to a federal appeals court judge. Is this service creditable for FERS? While it appears that it counts for leave purposes, my service computation date for retirement is about one year later than it is for leave.
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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. 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 am a federal employee and I was mobilized with the National Guard for one year. I am now on terminal leave for 60 days following my deployment. Can I go back to work with the federal government while I’m still on military terminal leave?
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?
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 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’m 48 years old with 25 years of service under FERS. I’m thinking of taking a position with a state agency within the next two years. When can I collect my federal retirement if I leave federal service? Also, what would happen with my sick leave and annual leave balance?
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…