Q: I am a civilian GS employee and an active reservist. I am getting deployed to Afghanistan for about 100 days. I was wondering if I am allowed to use any/all/combination of my military leave, civilian regular leave or sick leave while I am deployed. This would allow me to get my GS salary as well as my Army salary at the same time. My GS salary is more than my active-duty salary will be. A: You may take military leave (the 15 days granted each year for training), annual leave or LWOP-US. You may not use sick leave. For…
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Q: I am retired military with 29 years of service on April 1, 2010. I have been employed in the Defense Department lab demo program since April 12, 2010. Have an SCD leave date of Dec. 13, 1990, SCD Civ of April 4, 2010 and SCD RIF of April 12, 2010. If given a notice of involuntary separation by my agency, will I be eligible for unemployment? Where can I find more details? A: You’ll have to check with your state unemployment office.
Q: I am 63 and a retired Marine. I started working for the VA in September of 2009 and decided not to participate in a buyback. There is a FERS deduction taken from my pay. Will I be eligible for retirement under FERS? If so, when? A: You would be eligible for an annuity after you have completed five years of FERS service.
Q: I am an active-duty retiree and served 26 years continuous active duty, retiring in 1997. I am employed under FERS. I am in the process of establishing a military deposit account and understand that the amount of the deposit must be paid in full prior to submission of a retirement application in order to receive credit for my active-duty time for federal retirement. I would like to know if there are any provisions in law that allow enlisted retirees to receive military retirement and federal civilian retirement for the same periods of service. I am also in receipt of…
Q: I work for the government under FERS. I retired from the military after 20 years, but did not buy back my time for retiring from the federal government. I am a GS13 and will be 62 next year and will also have 10 years working for the federal government. Will I get some sort of retirement? Will I be allowed to draw a retirement from the the federal government and also continue to draw my military retirement pay? A: To be eligible for a FERS annuity at age 62, you would only need to work for five years. If…
Q. I started my civil service career on Sept. 28, 1983. I was originally under the CSRS system until 1988 and I was offered a chance to change over to FERS. This was offered to employees who had under five years of service. I chose to change to FERS. They repaid me all of my monies that I had contributed to CSR retirement (7 percent annually) except 19 percent. I am assuming that this 19 percent was to pay into the FERS system. My question is, does all of my time count under FERS toward my retirement computation for years…
Q. I noticed the article on your site located here: http://blogs.federaltimes.com/federal-retirement/2010/04/27/service-academy-time-and-accrued-leave. I have been having a heck of a time getting my agency to credit my service academy time for annual leave. Two reasons for this: 1) I’m the first person to ask about this and 2) Our HR department doesn’t have much experience with military members. Is there any way to get a note or email from OPM stating this? Or perhaps a point of contact who can provide something That is about the only thing I can do to get my agency to credit that time. Their response…
Q. If an employee is covered under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and is receiving military pay as a result of a service-connected disability, will/he she be entitled to receive credit for both retirement and leave purposes without waiving their military retired pay? What are the exceptions to the rule? A. You would only be able to get credit for that period of service without having to waive your retired pay if you were awarded it on account of a service-connected disability either incurred in combat with an enemy of the U.S. or caused by an instrumentality of war and…
Q. I have two years of military service that I bought back. How does this time count in regard to FERS retirement? Does it count toward meeting FERS retirement civilian service eligibility requirements as one of your answers seemed to indicate? Does military service count in the annuity calculation if you don’t buy the time back? A. It all depends. If you are covered by FERS, you won’t receive any credit for your active-duty military service unless you make a deposit for that time. If you are covered by CSRS and were first employed on or after Oct. 1, 1982, you’ll…
Q. I am a Postal Service employee whose retirement comp date is Feb. 6, 1991. I also have four years of military service credit. I would like to retire Dec. 30. But I am confused by how my total years of service are calculated. I should have 711 hours of sick leave accrued, so at 50 percent of that, my calculations are that I will have more than enough hours to get my total years of service to 21 instead of 20. However, I read somewhere that any months that you work fewer than 30 days are thrown out. So…