Re: PessOptimist's Retirement Story
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PessOptimist
Thanks for the reply. Your agency has very little to say with when or if you retire. They do have a lot to do with getting the process started. Unless you have not been a federal employee for 31 days or more.
https://www.opm.gov/retirement-servi...ing/#url=Apply
I have to get the paperwork from Colorado from my parent department, fill it out, send it back to Colorado and if there are no hiccups they send it to Cleveland, OH to payroll. If they find no problems and process it correctly then it goes to OPM. The agency may have zero to say about if you retire but they sure have a lot to do with making it happen.
Scout333, good advice and I have found that person. The new local HR person does not do retirements. I request and submit my paperwork to the same person at the parent department who has been sending the retirement estimates.
It should go pretty well. I have no breaks in fed service, been with the same agency the whole time, didn’t make any military deposit and have faithfully downloaded everything from my eopf. I go there every 60 days as they seem to no longer notify any one of new actions. Being close to the end I think once a week is prudent. Download anything placed in the file and save it off the .gov domain. Just my advice. Records disappear sometimes.
Good luck to anyone retiring soon.
PO
your agency has nothing to do with it. they do not do anything. u don't even have to tell them u are retiring. u could be there on friday leave turn in your ID's to security and never show up monday. Everything is with OPM. I retired last yr. there was an OPM retirement class they said nothing has to be said and when I was talking to my OPM retirement contact they told me the same thing. call the OPM number tell them u want to retire and one of their people will contact u and get it started. the one form an agency signs,if u don't want them to know your leaving the OPM contact has the auth to sign it for u, since it somewhat really means nothing.
"Our Constitution was made only for a Moral and Religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the goverment of any other." John Adams 10/11/1798
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