What you’ll learn
When a job ends on someone else’s terms, the retirement rules change. This track explains the durable mechanics: Discontinued Service Retirement, how VERA works in a downsizing, the deferred annuity that preserves a future pension, severance pay and your TSP, and how to keep your health coverage through a separation.
Lessons
6 lessons- 01Discontinued Service Retirement (DSR)How an immediate annuity works when your separation is involuntary, and who qualifies.Soon
- 02VERA during a reduction in forceHow Voluntary Early Retirement Authority works when your agency is downsizing.Soon
- 03Keeping a future pension if you separate earlyHow a deferred annuity preserves your retirement if you leave before you are eligible.Soon
- 04Severance pay and your TSP after a layoffHow federal severance is calculated, and what happens to your TSP when you separate.Soon
- 05Keeping health coverage through a separationTemporary continuation of coverage and other ways to stay insured after you separate.Soon
- 06Voluntary vs. involuntary: a decision treeHow leaving on your own terms differs from being separated, for your pension and your benefits.Soon
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