No Civilian Pensions for Military Retirees?

"...To address long-term sequester cuts, the Defense Department is mulling numerous reductions that will affect civilian employees, including doing away with civilian employee pensions for military retirees who go back to work for the government as civilian employees.

The savings could be almost $100 billion over 10 years when combined with a halt to commissary subsidies and restrictions on the availability of unemployment benefits, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters last week in summarizing the recommendations of the newly completed “Strategic Choices and Management Review.”

“A sequester-level scenario would compel us to consider these changes because there would be no realistic alternative that did not pose unacceptable risk to national security,” Hagel said..."

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Buy Back Military Time for Retirement

"...Before military time can be applied toward civil service retirement, in most cases the employee has to "buy back" the active duty time..."

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CSRS, FERS, and Military Credit transfer

"...If I transfer to FERS, what happens to credit for my military service?

Answer: Except for a very small category of employees described in paragraph 2 (below), nothing will change. It will continue to be creditable in a CSRS component of your benefit, and the same rules that applied when you were under CSRS will continue to apply. These basic rules are: ..."

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