Q. I am 53 and have 27 years in a law enforcement officer position covered by 6-C Special Retirement and am eligible (by both time and age) to retire. I was injured on duty and required surgery. I have been on OWCP for five months. I have been assigned an OWCP nurse case manager. My doctor told me yesterday that he does not feel he can approve me to return to my position due to my injury and subsequent surgery. He is referring me for a Functional Capacity Exam, after which he will make his decision. (This is probably moot anyway, as I…
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Q. In July 2008, Customs and Border Protection officers received law enforcement officer status and would get the 1.7 percent to calculate their pension thereafter. I was on active federal service when this took place but went on Army active duty in November 2008. I will be leaving active duty in 2012 and going back to CBP to pay my military deposit for all the leave without pay time to get credit toward my retirement. I am being told that I will not be receiving LEO 1.7 percent for the time I was on active duty even though I will…
Q: I recently retired from the FBI in a non-law enforcement position. However, I started federal service in 1971 (Drug Enforcement Administration special agent, customs special agent) and stayed in that position for about 15 years. I then went into the private sector for 18 years. After retiring from the private sector, I returned to the government with the FBI. After a total of 20 years, I retired. The Office of Personnel Management advised me that although I contributed the higher amounts to the 6(c) retirement for three-quarters of my federal service, there was no provision for either a partial-6(c)…
Q: I am a federal law enforcement employee with 20 years covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System FERS plus five years worth of military buyback time. I have six more years before I will face mandatory retirement at my 57th birthday. I want to transfer to a non-LEO position with another federal agency so I can keep working. Please confirm that if I do transfer to a non-LEO position with another federal agency that I can keep working past 57 and not face mandatory retirement, and that my 20 years of FERS LEO service will transfer over at the…
Q: I retired from federal service in 2006 under the law enforcement retirement provision. I have since been re-employed by the government with a waiver for a temporary law enforcement position that allows me to receive both my annuity and the full salary of my new job. I have been informed that when my temporary position ends, the Office of Personnel Management will recalculate my retirement. Are there are any special provisions that would apply to my situation due to being re-employed with a waiver? Because I have not been contributing to retirement in my temporary position, would the recalculation…
Q: I will have been in federal law enforcement for 25 years as of April 2011. I will be 46 years old at that point. In my first 15 years of service, I was in a covered law enforcement position. The next two years, I was in a law enforcement position that was not covered. In last seven years, I again have been in a covered position. Will I be eligible to retire in 2011 at the age of 46, or do I have to add the two years I was in the uncovered position onto the 25 years? A:…
Q: If I was in a law enforcement-covered position for eight years, then took a noncovered position for seven years, then moved back to a covered position, what time would count toward the LEO-covered retirement? I was told that as long as you had served three years in a covered position, you were vested and your service would continue in the special-category retirement as long as you had no break in federal service. A: As long as you are in a primary law enforcement position for the requisite period of time and have a total 20 years of covered service,…
Q: I am hoping to retire with 20 years as a 6c law enforcement officer. I have approximately 10 additional years of federal service (noncovered). Will the annuity for these noncovered 10 years be computed at a 2 percent rate? Will the rate be the high-3 of those 10 years (noncovered) or the high-3 of the covered service? A: If you have 20 years of covered service as a law enforcement officer, the special, more generous annuity computation will be used to compute that part of your annuity (0.025 x your high-3 x 20 years). Any years of service over 20, whether covered or not, will…
Q: I am a GS-1811 law enforcement officer covered under the early retirement provisions of 6(c) and a Civil Service Retirement System employee. Can my four years of active-duty military service, for which I have made a redeposit into CSRS, be used to reach the 35 years (or 80 percent max annuity under CSRS) of total credited federal service (i.e., 31 years of actual federal LEO civilian service plus 4 years of military service equal 35 years of service annuity)? A: Your first 20 years of law enforcement service will be calculated using the enhanced formula: 0.25 x your high-3…