Q. In returning to the USPS in 1987, I was placed in FERS. I had worked from 1980 to 1985 under CSRS. I withdrew all money at this time. I kept informing everyone in personnel that I could return to CSRS; no one would listen. In December 2005, I received a letter stating that I was placed in the wrong retirement. From 1987 to 2010, I paid into Social Security. They never changed the code until then they lost the paperwork. My husband died recently, and I am entitled to his Social Security when I am 59½. Is this subject…
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Q: If you are eligible for a discontinued service retirement and you are part of a reduction-in-force, because you are on a priority placement program for a year, why can you not wait until the year is almost up to put in for your DSR? Also, I am under the Federal Employees Retirement System, but I have money that I paid into the Civil Service Retirement System. I am not under CSRS Offset because when I was transferred the choices were not explained to me; I was just told that I had to transfer. What happens to the money that…