Q. If an employee injures himself on second shift and has to go to the doctor the next day prior to reporting to work, is he entitled to earn compensatory time for time spent seeking medical attention? Keep in mind he is a dual-status employee and therefore not entitled to overtime pay.
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Q. If you run out of sick and annual leave due to medical problems, how and where do you pay your health care premiums? I don’t want to take any chances of losing it.
Q. I am a term employee (not to exceed five years) participating in FERS. My term is ending in April. If I get a permanent position prior to that, what happens to my annual leave and sick leave. Does my term time count toward retirement?
Q. I am retiring under CSRS in February. With my three years, 11 months and 10 days in the Navy, plus sick leave, I will have 42 years and eight months CSRS and be 62 years and five months old. On advice of our HR office, I never paid my military deposit back since I was planning on retiring federal and only had 31 Social Security credits. I have looked in the Office of Personnel Management site and the Fedweek CSRS retirement manual and neither says it will not reduce my annuity if I don’t pay the deposit. Can you help?
Q. I had planned to retire Dec. 28, 2014, since, in the past, I read that was the best time to retire in 2014. If I retire on Jan. 3, 2015, will I still be able to cash in all of my use-or-lose leave since the leave year for 2015 does not start until Jan. 10, 2015? What date you recommend for the overall greatest financial benefit?
Q. I am a FERS employee who will be retiring in June with 30 years at age 56. I understand that my 10½ months (1,759 hours at present) of unused sick time will be added to my annuity. I also understand that at my salary of $56,810, my monthly annuity with almost a year of unused sick time is only an additional $40 per month. Am I correct, or am I missing something?
Q. Will a 54-year-old FERS employee leaving government service with 600 hours of accumulated sick leave lose the sick leave when he files for deferred retirement at age 62?
Q. I’m a CSRS Offset employee. Is it better to retire on the last day of the month, or on the 1st, 2nd or 3rd?
Q. After 40 years and 11 months of federal service, you are maxed out at 80 percent. Any CSRS held from your check after that is paid plus 3 percent interest, and the only money taxed is the interest, correct? If you take payment in a lump sum, is it usually paid as fast as the annual leave payment?
Q. I was injured on duty as a government employee and forced to take leave without pay. I am told that I have 12 months of LWOP status before they can remove me from my position. I have been called into work on the clock several times during the past six months or so. Does my LWOP status date change each time I come in on the clock or does is remain the same? Usually, I was there about 2 hours for a meeting involving union talks in attempts to remove me because of my disability. Before I began LWOP…