Q. I am a GS 6 step 3. I was recently notified that I had received a within-grade increase (Grade 7); however, nobody has been able to tell me what step I am at, and the information hasn’t updated in my service record screen yet. Can you tell me what step I should be at? A. If you were at step 3, a reasonable assumption is that you are now at step 4.
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Q. After working for approximately 11 years in the private sector and paying into Social Security, I joined the Foreign Service in March 1979. I resigned in July 1983 to get married and start a family. I got back the $4,000 I paid into my retirement. In June 1985, I rejoined the Foreign Service and because my original separation was for the purpose of marriage, I was brought back on at the same grade and step level I was at, my leave balances at the time of my separation were reinstated, and I continued to earn annual and sick leave at the same…
Q: I was hired by the Defense Department under the National Security Personnel System. Will I be converted to a Federal Employees Retirement System grade, and how will that grade be determined? A: You’ll have to be patient. The law ending the NSPS was just enacted and the phase-out won’t be completed until Jan. 1, 2012. How grade levels will be determined has yet to be decided.
Q: I was a GS-12, and when my organization reorganized, I was assigned to a different YA-02 position and not my original position, which was converted to a YC-02 position. I was told this was not a downgrade since I lost no pay or benefits. Now that the National Security Personnel System is ending, I understand that they must return me to my original grade and pay. The YA-02 position they assigned me to was a GS-10 before being converted to NSPS. Will they have to put me in another position that is a GS-12 since the NSPS YA-02 position…