Q. I am an air traffic controller under FERS who will retire with 25 years of service at age 49. I also have five years of military service that I’ve bought back, bringing my total to 30 years. I’m unclear on the manner in which my military service will be calculated in my retirement annuity. One possibility would be to declare military service time as part of the 30-year requirement to convert all the years values to 1.7 percent, instead of 1.7 percent for the first 20, then 1 percent after that. The legal language has historically read “30 years of creditable service,”…
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Q: I was a former Merchant Marine cadet, and have been a Navy Reserve officer for eight years. I just started to work for the Federal Aviation Administration. I know the Civil Service/Federal Employees Retirement System handbook leaves out the Merchant Marine Academy as one of the academies eligible for military service credit, however, I have a “statement of service” in my Navy Reserve folder stating I was a midshipman in the Navy Reserve during those four years. The dates are also listed in my annual statement of service history. It does say that those dates are not creditable, but…