Q: How is sick leave to be apportioned when a employee retires with a Civil Service Retirement System component to a Federal Employees Retirement System pension? When I transferred to FERS, I had 275 hours of sick leave frozen. I expect to retire before December 2012 with 700 hours of sick leave, and I understand that half, or 350 hours, would be credited toward my retirement. However, there doesn’t seem to be any clear information on how that 350 hours would be allocated. Can you help? A: Your frozen CSRS sick leave balance will be added to your actual service…
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Q: I have prior military service. Now I am a federal employee. Can unused military sick leave be used as service credit in the computation of benefits under the Federal Employees Retirement System when I retire? A: No. You can’t use it in your annuity computation or for any other purpose as a civilian employee of the federal government.
Q. I’m in CSRS with the Postal Service. At retirement, will my annuity be credited at 174 hours of sick leave per month or is my total sick leave balance added to my actual service time and rounded down to the month? A. As a CSRS employee, when you retire, your hours of unused sick leave will be added to your actual service time. Any combination of actual hours and sick leave hours that add up to 174 will increase your final service time by one month. Any leftover days will be dropped.
Q. You answered a previous question that sick time earned under FERS can be reinstated even after a separation of federal service of more than three years. I was separated for nearly 10 years and then rehired in December 2009. I had over 300 hours of sick leave under FERS. My current human resources manager claims she has no idea how to get my sick time reinstated. Can you tell me the process and/or forms that HR needs to submit, and to whom? A. On Dec. 2, 1994, OPM issued final regulations that allow those who are re-employed on or…
Q. I have been a federal employee for over seven years and I worked for the Transportation Security Administration. I currently work for the U.S. Capitol Police; will my sick leave balance transfer from TSA to USCP? A. It should; however, check with your new personnel office to make sure that that it has.
Q: I will be retiring soon with more than 42 years of service. I have 8 3/4 months of saved up sick leave using the formula of 174 hours equals one month. I have earlier this year taken a few sick days. Can I convert the days I took to annual leave so as to restore my sick leave and give me nine months of sick leave to help increase my pension? A: You’ll need to check with you agency to see if they would be able to adjust your leave records and substitute annual leave for the sick leave that you actually…
Q: If I retire Dec. 31, a Friday, my first annuity check would begin on Feb 1, 2011. However, I would lose credit for any leave accumulated in that last pay period because I did not work the full pay period, which ends Jan. 1, 2011. Is this correct? A: If Friday, Dec. 31, would be the last day of a pay period and you retire at the close of business, you would get credit for any annual and sick leave you earned during that pay period.
Q: When I retire, I will have 2,203 hours of sick leave. I am under Civil Service Retirement System Offset. I believe 2,087 hours is the equivalent of one year of service when I retire. So when I retire at age 58, — at 30 years, 6 months of service — I will get an extra year added to my time, so I will have 31 years, 6 months of service that will apply for purposes of calculating my retirement annuity. Is this correct? My husband works a nine-hour schedule that gives him one day off every week. Does the…
Q: Is there a cap on how much sick leave can be applied to calculating a pension? Is there a 2,087-hour limit? A: No, there isn’t any cap on how many hours of unused sick leave can be applied when calculating an annuity. However, for the time being, Federal Employees Retirement System employees will only get credit for one-half of their total hours, while Civil Service Retirement System employees will continue to get full credit.
Q. The Defense Authorization Act was signed in October 2009. When does this act go into effect and do current FERS employees retiring in 2010 have this option? A. The provision allowing FERS retirees to get credit for unused sick leave applies to those employees retiring on or after Oct. 28, 2009, the date the law was enacted.