Q. I plan on separating from the government Jan. 10, 2015, at 56 years, six months and nine days old and postpone getting my annuity until June or July 2018, when I will be 60 years old. My service computation date is May 6, 1990. To accomplish this, my understanding was to submit an SF-52 with Section E filled out to resign and then, approximately 90 days before I wanted my annuity to start, submit a RI92-19 to apply. But I keep reading where I can retire under MRA+10 on a regular retirement form, and there is a way to…
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Q. I’m in CSRS. My service computation date is July 31, 1978, and I maintain the maximum of 240 hours of annual leave. I also have 3,702.4 hours of sick leave. Since annual leave is projected forward, is the first pay period of the new leave the best time to retire to receive a lump-sum payment for 448 hours of unused leave? However, I don’t know how this will affect my sick leave. Is there a formula or software that can determine the best year and date to retire to maximize lump-sum payment for unused annual leave and sick leave?
Q. I am a retired military rehired annuitant with the Internal Revenue Service. I retired from the Department of Agriculture with 29 years and seven months under restructuring with no penalties. My time was made up of 20 years and one week of military (waived military retirement) and nine years, six months and three weeks of civil service time for a total of 29 years and seven months. I am being told that I cannot receive benefits from my military time in the form of leave or service computation date, but they can use it to offset my current salary. …
Q. How do I calculate, or on what Office of Personnel Management form can I find the retirement service computation date? I work for the Veterans Affairs Department, and all I see on my leave and earnings statement is a service computation date. I have read that the RSCD can be found on the Personal Statement of Benefits, but I cannot locate that, either. Any suggestions?
Q. I am considering requesting a Voluntary Early Retirement Authority/Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay and being off the rolls by March 31. My service computation date is Feb. 28, 1982 (CSRS and FERS). On Feb. 28, 2014, I will have 32 years of combined service (CSRS and FERS). On April 11, 2014, I will be 58 years old. I transferred to FERS on March 30, 1994. Therefore, I will have 20 years under FERS on March 30, 2014. I previously withdrew all of my retirement funds from CSRS, and never paid them back. I understand that although I did not repay…
Q. I am employed by the federal government and enrolled in FERS. I am coming up on my five-year anniversary of employment. When is the exact date that I will be vested? Is the vesting date the exact five-year date from my hire date, or do I need to complete an entire pay period that the exact five-year anniversary falls in? I am paid monthly. Will I receive a notice from FERS that I am vested? Can I sign on to a website to find this information?
Q. I recently went back to work as a federal employee with the Veterans Affairs Department. When I retired through Department of the Army, I was a GS-9 Step 4 with more than 27 years of total federal service. In addition, during my tenure, I worked with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service as a GS-8 that was within the same job series 0990. Thus far, VA has not given me credit for my total service time, whereupon they set my service computation date up as Jan. 27, 2013. I was hired into a GS-7 position on that date, and they…
Q. I am a FERS employee with a service computation date of March 30, 1986, and a retirement SCD of Feb. 4, 1982 (I had 4+ years of active duty, for which I made a military deposit.) My birthday is Feb. 15, 1959, so I will be 55 in February 2014 and 56 in February 2015. If I were to receive and accept a Voluntary Early Retirement Authority offer in 2014, would I still receive the special retirement supplement until I turn 62? If so, would it start immediately when I retired, or would I need to wait until I…
Q. I had cashed out the five years of FERS service from May 1987 through August 1992. I was reinstated in November 2005 and been with the federal government since. I just received a letter from the Office of Personnel Management that I would have to pay $1,973 for FERS redeposit and $3,541 for the interest — a total of $5514. The date shown is Nov. 14, 2013. I wonder if redeposit is a good approach at this time? Please explain the benefit of having this redeposit made vs. not doing anything. And, for future reference, where can I tap…
Q. I served in the Air Force from 1966 to 1970 and started working for the Defense Department in 1970. My CSRS retirement contributions started at that time, and my service computation date was listed as Dec. 12, 1966. When I retired on Oct. 1, 2011, I had worked for the DoD for 40 years and nine months (44 years and nine months with my Air Force time included). With my four years of Air Force time included, I reached my 41 years and 11 months in November 2008, since I continued to work until October 2011. I thought that…