Q. I am a Defense Department civilian employee under FERS. My date of birth is March 15, 1954. My EOD was Oct. 1, 2007, which gives me five years of service. I have accrued 111.75 hours of annual leave, 80 hours of sick leave and 8.5 credit hours as of the pay period ending Oct. 6. I do not meet eligibility requirements for an early retirement under FERS, so If I resign within the next few weeks, what is the process I need to go through, and what can I expect as far as payout? Will I lose any of…
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Q. I’m considering retiring on July 3, 2013. My current and projected sick leave balance is as follows: Currently as of pay period 14 = 2,320.45 End of this calendar year projection = 2,372.45 Projected amount as of June 29, 2013 = 2,428.45 (last pay period before retirement) If you apply the Office of Personnel Management’s sick leave conversion to the 2,428.45 sick leave hours at the time of my probable retirement (July 3, 2013), the conversion table states that I’ll be one hour or .55 hours shy of having one year and two months of sick leave applied to…
Q. I am on six weeks of sick leave. Will I continue to accrue sick leave and annual leave during these six weeks? A. Yes.
Q. I am working for the Veterans Affairs Department hospital. I served six years of service with the active-duty Navy, in which I was awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and was honorably discharged with an RE1 enlistment code after the Navy. I served 14 years Active Guard Reserve with the Army National Guard. I do not wish to sell my time back, but I want to know why my active-duty time with the Navy does not count toward my time for leave or vacation when there are fellow workers who have less time (3-4 years) that do. A. It…
Q. I have been recently hired as a federal employee. Does my prior military service (five years) count toward the rate at which I accrue sick and annual leave? A. According to the Office of Personnel Management, “An agency may provide credit toward an employee’s annual leave accrual rate for non-Federal service or active-duty uniformed service that otherwise would not be creditable if the individual has prior work experience directly related to the duties of the position to which he or she is being appointed and the prior experience is necessary to achieve an important agency mission or performance goal.…
Q. I’ve been getting mixed messages about whether service at the armed forces military academies is creditable for annual leave accrual purposes. I’ve read Q&As on your site that say it is, but my human resources people say that it isn’t. Who’s right? A. According to the Office of Personnel Management: “Section 1115 of the NDAA for FY 2008 is the applicable provision of law that explicitly makes academy service time creditable for retirement — and therefore for annual leave accrual purposes. “Section 1115 of the NDAA amended title 5 United States Code so that it explicitly made academy service time creditable toward retirement…
Q. I worked as a GS clinical nurse from Sept. 12, 1999, to Sept. 24, 2005 — a total of six years. On May 10, 2010, I returned to federal service as a GS clinical nurse. My service computation date was determined to be Feb. 8, 2008. How was this date arrived at? I previously worked from February 1991 to January 1996 as a GS worker and foolishly took my retirement monies out. I know I have lost that time. But that should not cause me to lose three years of service time, should it? A. Unless you re-deposit the…
Q. I am a full-time term federal employee. I had a service computation date of Feb. 5, 2005. It was recently changed to June 4, 2002, due to military service. Will this new SCD help when computing my FERS retirement plan as far as years? I have only contributed to FERS since 2005, when I became a scheduled full-time term employee. A. It will only affect your annual leave accrual rate. It won’t have any effect on your retirement eligibility or in your annuity computation unless you make a deposit for that period of active-duty service.
Q. I was told that if I had served in Vietnam in a combat situation and could prove it, I would qualify for additional leave accrual (over eight hours per pay period). If I submitted a copy of my decorations I had been awarded, that would be the proof needed. Turn that into the personnel folks here at Tinker [Air Force Base, Okla.] and they would fill out the paperwork and process the application. I am a Vietnam vet and was hired as a civil servant one year ago. Can anyone tell me if there is any truth to this?…
Q. I completed a full one-year internship with the Veterans Affairs Department system (with annual leave and sick leave earnings) prior to my current federal employment. Three years after this internship ended, I obtained a job at a VA hospital. I have known other VA employees who have had this period counts toward changes in annual leave accrual from four to six hours. Upon my hire, I was informed that the VA hospital I worked at had some of the documentation but was missing a specific form required to change annual leave calculation. Hence, our human resources office could not…