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Q. I am a 39-year SES employee in CSRS. What rules are in place for post-retirement employment? As long as I do not work on items related to my agency, can I seek work with a contractor? Also, will I be able to get my full annuity while earning a salary with a contractor? Are there any cautions? A. You can seek employment with a contractor. However, whether it would be considered a breach of ethics to do so would depend on the extent to which you were using knowledge obtained while a government employee in your new position. You’ll…

Q. I retired from the federal government with more than 35 years of service with a CSRS pension on Jan. 20, 2009, because I was serving in a non-career SES position (my final SF-50 indicated an involuntary separation). If I were to return to federal service, would I be eligible for an annuity offset, thereby keeping my annuity and federal salary? In addition, if, after working as a re-employed annuitant for two or three years and then re-retiring, would my CSRS annuity change or be re-calculated to reflect additional years of employment? A. As a rule, if you were re-employed by the…

Q. What office does a Senior Executive Service employee apply to for retirement and where is the pay office located for SES personnel? Is it a different office than a regular CSRS employee who deals with the Office of Personnel Management? A. Senior Executive Service employees are no different from other employees when it comes to retirement. They fill out the same paperwork and submit it to their servicing personnel office. Once retired, their annuity, like that of other employees, is paid out of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, which is maintained by the Department of the Treasury…

Q: I a Civil Service Retirement System Offset employee and I am trying to decide whether to retire Dec. 31, 2010, or Jan. 1 2011. I am in the Senior Executive Service and will have over 800 hours of annual leave for a lump-sum payout. If I retire Dec. 31, is that lump sum considered part of 2010 income or 2011?  I believe I will not pay Social Security tax on the lump sum if it falls in 2010, since I usually have this covered by September of each year. A: Your lump-sum payment is considered to be earned income…