Q. In the last buyout the clerks had for $15,000, one of our clerks took that and said that she got paid for the holidays after her retirement date if her annual leave would have taken her through those dates. Back then, the retirement date was the end of November and she got paid for Christmas, New Year’s and Martin Luther King Day. Does this benefit apply all the time when a person retires, or is it just when a buyout is offered? A. Yes. Unused annual leave is projected forward as if you were still on the job and…
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Q. Have step increases been frozen? A. No.
Q. I am a new employee and have both service computation date (April 29, 2011) and date of hire (May 7, 2012). When calculating step increases (going from 7 to 8, for example) or vacation accrual (going from four to six hours per pay period) or similar, which date do I use for the calculations? For example, it’s three years between a step 7 and 8, so for me, will that happen April 29, 2014, or May 7, 2015? I don’t know the standard time period before I go from four to six hours’ sick accrual, but is that based…
Q: I have a little more than 11 years of military active-duty time and two years FERS time in law enforcement. I’m going to send off my RI 20-97 in a day or two. If I make a lump-sum payment, will my GS-6 step 3 (current pay grade) increase to a step 8 (pay grade at 13 years service)? A: No, it won’t. However, making the deposit will increase your length of service and be used in your annuity computation when you retire.
Q: I am a GS-14 Step 6 Federal 1811. With my locality pay (New York) and availability pay, I am subject to the bi-weekly and annual pay cap. For calculation of my high-3, do they use my grade plus locality plus availability pay (as per the charts) or do they use the lower amount that I got paid due to the pay cap? A: Your annuity will be based solely on the highest three consecutive years of average pay that you actually received, the amount from which retirement deductions were taken.
Q: I have been trying to find CFR’s or other federal regulations that instruct how disability retirement annuites are to be reduced from 60 percent to 40 percent after the first year. My annuities were never reduced automatically by the Operations Retirement Center. The IRS and I noticed something wasn’t right on my 1099R, so I initiated an ivestigation to look into my account. They discovered an overpayment for the last two years, now they want it paid back. So, I am pleading my case and want to find regulation language describing that OPM is responsible or is supposed to…
Q: I served 16 years of active-duty military, then separated and took a federal job and paid my military buyback in full. If I decide to leave the government before I retire, can I have my military buyback refunded to me? A: Yes, but only if you accept a full refund of all your retirement contributions. Doing so would void your right to a future retirement benefit.
Q: How will the 2012 final year of conversion to locality pay affect federal employees who are paid at “agency discretion” under a statute which caps their pay at EX-IV, such as those in the U.S. Attorney’s Offices. Some employees’ basic pay was under the cap when the three-year conversion began. However, in 2012, their pay would exceed the pay cap if the full amount of COLA is converted to locality pay. On the other hand, if the cap is applied, such employees will experience a reduction in gross pay, inconsistent with Congressional intent to protect employees’ pay. See 1915(a)…
Leave without pay (LWOP) must be granted in some instances and is a matter of supervisory discretion in others. Employees are entitled to LWOP in the following situations: • Under the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act, which provides covered employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave during any 12-month period for certain family and medical needs. • Under the 1994 Uniformed Service Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, which requires LWOP for a period of military service. • Under Executive Order 5396, from July 17, 1930, which requires LWOP for disabled veterans for necessary medical treatment. A supervisor might…
Q: I work for postal service as a PS-06 mail processing bargaining clerk with a base rate of $53,102. I have been offered an Inspection Service ISLE 09 position (equivalent to a GS-09) that will include a locality pay of 24.22 percent. As far as I know, as a bargaining employee who gets an EAS promotion, the salary schedule would receive a 5 percent increase to my existing bargaining-unit salary. In my case, the new base pay rate would be $55,757. So how would the locality pay be computed? Would it be new base pay rate of $55,757 + 24.22…