Browsing: CSRS

Q: I recently heard that if you were eligible for Civil Service Retirement System retirement and retired, receiving your retired pay, you could return as a FERS employee for a period of time and not effect your CSRS retired pay. Could you elaborate on this program or provide information where I could find out more about it? A: As you described it, no, it isn’t true. As a rule, if you retire and return to work for the government, the salary of your new position — it will be offset by the amount of your annuity. It doesn’t make any…

Q. I am retired under the Civil Service Retirement System Offset. I left the government in 1982 after 10 years of service and withdrew my pension. I returned to work in 1985 under the offset pension and retired in 2000 after a total of 25 years of service. I am now working under Social Security in the private sector, and will have 15 years of Social Security not counting federal work at age 62 when it will be mandatory for me to collect Social Security because of early federal retirement. How will this affect my pension/Social Security? Will it be…

Q: I started my federal career Oct. 16, 1983, and had a break in service of three months in 1987, which caused me to have a new service comp date of Jan. 21, 1984. However, I remained a Civil Service Retirement System employee until voluntarily changing to Federal Employees Retirement System in May 1998. I resigned from federal service in June 2004. I left my retirement money in, but withdrew all my Thrift Savings Plan money, which I rolled into an IRA. In reading through all the literature available, it is my best reasoning that I will be entitled to…

Q: Your recent article on the Personal Advisor in the Nov. 2 issue of Federal Times described retirement benefits. You note that in 1983, “Those already covered by [Civil Service Retirement System] had the option of electing full coverage under both CSRS and Social Security …” However, your description doesn’t seem to recognize the Windfall Elimination Provision, such that those who elected to be covered by both get the severe reduction on their Social Security from the WEP. Is my understanding correct, or is something on WEP changed? I understand that I will get the WEP reduction on my Social…

Q: My wife retired at the age of 58 with a Civil Service Retirement System annuity. If she has 40 quarters in the Social Security system before she is 62, will she be able to collect her Social Security at age 62 without a reduction in her CSRS annuity? A: If she was covered by CSRS alone, her CSRS annuity won’t be reduced. However, her Social Security benefit will be reduced through the workings of the Windfall Elimination Provision. The WEP reduces — but doesn’t eliminate — the Social Security benefit of anyone receiving an annuity from a retirement system…

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