Q. How does leave without pay affect your retirement status within the Postal Service?
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Q. If I need to leave employment with the federal government a couple of months before I have five years of service, can I use my sick leave to reach the five-year mark?
Q. Is there a cap on the amount of annual leave I can have on the books at retirement. I plan to retire Dec. 28 and will have 295 hours at that time.
Q. What is the last date I can schedule annual leave for, before use or lose?
Q. I have worked for the Defense Department since December 2008 under FERS. I was medically retired with 15 years and seven months of service from October 1984 to June 2000. I’ve bought back all of my service time. What should be changed with my service computation date? How does this affect my leave accrual time?
Q. I have no plans to retire until I reach my MRA+30. I will reach my minimum retirement age in 2017. I will not have 30 years until July 2, 2019, by which point I plan to have about 1,300 hours of sick leave. Can I retire around Jan. 1, 2019, and have my unused my sick leave to calculate out to 30 years of service with no penalty?
Q. How does time spent on workers’ compensation for full and partial disability count toward CSRS retirement? I was injured after 13 years of civil service, was fully disabled two years, partially disabled (25 percent) for 10 years, and returned to work from 2003 to the present. To calculate CSRS Offset retirement, do the two years on full disability count as two years creditable service? Do the 10 years on 25 percent partial disability count as 10 years or 2½ years creditable service?
Whoopee! You just got a 1 percent pay raise, the first increase in several years. It may not sound like much, but in the long run it will pay off. That’s because once you meet the age and service requirement to retire, it’s your length of service and high-3 that will determine what your annuity will be. Your high-3 is an average of your highest rates of basic pay over any three consecutive years of creditable civilian service, with each pay rate weighted by the length of time it was received. That three-year period starts and ends on the dates…
Q. I am retired military with 20+ years of active-duty service serving in a full-time competitive service position under FERS. Eleven months of my military time is counted as “creditable military service” since it was served in a qualifying campaign. My service computation date for leave was adjusted by 11 months for the creditable time. Should my SCD for reduction in force also be adjusted based on this time?
Q. I will be eligible for retirement in approximately 14 months. Early on in my career, I injured both of my knee on different occasions. My knee bothers me to this day. Is there a way to file a claim for service-connected injuries similar to what is available when exiting the military? If so, where can I find more information?