My husband is a retired Federal worker. Retired as a GS14 He received a letter today from the Office of Personnel

[debm55]

Management , Office of Programs Retirement Inside was a letter of his Pay and benefits from 2017. Has anyone gotten this
letter of all his pay and benefits. He is trying to reach them now. Thank you very much. FU Musk and that Lardass trump

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Are they going after his pension?

[debm55]

2. We don;t know . He can't anyone to answer the phone. 2017 is the year he retired It lists a lower amount because He

also gets COLA

[haele]

3. Knowing $usk, they're probably going to want to claw back the COLAs.

Was there no cover letter explaining why they sent it?
I'm thinking I need to get my military pension payment paperwork in order again.

[debm55]

5. No cover letter. Just a print out of the start of his retirement.--pension, benifits.etc.

[peacebuzzard]

7. Does the phone just ring or is there a message to press this or press that number?

There were mass layoffs there and I have had contact with them around the year 2000 when I enrolled my sister with the OPM.
She is disabled and has survivor benefits so I take care of her finances. She is 100% dependent on military and SS survivor benefits.
Someone on this board mentioned to keep track of all statements because this is one of the Government Departments that has been confiscated by the gang in the White House. This Department was responsive and used to actually answer the phone however there would be prompts and wait times.
I hope there is someone to personally oversee the administrative issues other than bots and soundbites and AI.
I am worried about my sister's benefits as well.

[debm55]

17. Just rings he was on the phone for two hours. He went to the web site and it was down.

[allegorical oracle]

30. Call your Senator and/or Representative. All offices have a caseworker to help in these

situations involving federal agencies. (The Senate office may have more than one caseworker.)

[debm55]

31. Thank you very much---my Senator is Fetterman. Lives 5 miles from my house.

[obamanut2012]

4. What did the letter say? Why did they send it?

[debm55]

6. There was no letter just a printout of his first year on retirement, After reading on here about making copies we made

copies of my SS and my husband's went to the Portal for government employes. and printed them. Is there even anyone at the OPM? We have no idea why it was sent the OPM ,ORP website is not open

[DaBronx]

9. Question for you

Is the document that hubby printed the same document that was mailed?

[debm55]

32. this is with just the first year of the retirement. Through all of the years of COLAs he is getting I.000 ,more I not

sure if is monthly or yearly.

[debm55]

18. No letter just his paper of the money he received since 2017. He worked at the Dept of the Interior--Bureau of Mines,

Did research on ex[plosives for the Dept of Energy. and for some reason the CDC. He was named Federal Employee of the Year in 1991 has 3 patents for the Feds which he had to sell to the Feds for 1 dollar and worked for 40years. Then we get this shit

[debm55]

8. kick

[Hekate]

10. Kick

[montanacowboy]

11. I am a retired GS13 also

but I haven't gotten anything. I am just waiting for the shit to hit the fan. We will probably lose our medical also which we pay a pretty penny for.

[debm55]

16. You got that right. Also pay a higher rate for all " bennies." Just asked my husband and he was a GS14

[debm55]

19. Sorry that was GS 14.

[IronLionZion]

12. Any context? Are they asking for something?

Musk probably thinks paying workers is "fraud, waste, and abuse".

[debm55]

21. My husband did not pay into SS as when he started working there no Feds got SS. They had their own pension and was at a

rate then SS. Now it is different.Fed workers pay into SS.

[IronLionZion]

25. It sounds like Musk is targeting the federal pension fund

The wealthiest man in the world is finding cost savings by screwing retirees out of their savings.

[debm55]

33. No just the printout of where his pension started.

[ecstatic]

13. musk is wasting more money

Why are they spending money to mail out cryptic / incomplete letters?

[debm55]

22. My husband is recovering from Malignant Prostrate Cancer, he is depressed with that and now this.

[peacebuzzard]

40. Awww debm55, ((())), I am so sorry...

I hate the sf crimson ass and his batch of decrepit mofos...this is making all the dead war heroes of the past just sick in their resting spots that all they did and suffered for amounted to this cheap gaggle of fools.

[IronLionZion]

26. This is the meritocracy of super genius qualifications

only the best and brightest America has to offer are on it.

[jeffreyi]

14. Do retirees have any advocacy groups?

[wishstar]

15. Yes we have NARFE- National Association of Retired Federal Employees

NARFE was instrumental in getting the Windfall Pension Offset and Government Pension Offset repealed last year to help retirees who had been getting reductions in Social Security. Don't know when SS will ever get around to carrying out the repeal and raising our benefits for those of us who were WPO'd and GPO'd.

[debm55]

23. He still gets letters from the Union. We don;t know if that would be an advocacy group. But he spent 40 years of his

life helping miners be safe.

[pwb]

20. I have not received one.

.

[debm55]

24. Thank you , we will take turns on the speaker phone waiting for someone to pick up, tomorrow. as he had a cancer group

meeting today.

[Lulu KC]

27. This is chilling

I hope it was a dumb glitch that has nothing to do with anything. Please keep us posted.

[debm55]

34. I will.Thank you.

[ALBliberal]

28. Thinking of you both my our main source

of income is from my husbands state pension.

Can’t imagine the stress you are feeling on top of an apparent cancer diagnosis.

I will bookmark and follow.

[debm55]

35. Thank you , I taught in Catholic schools all my 40 years of teaching. Rich has completed 8 weeks of radiation in

September and takes an Estrogen pill under his tongue every day---8,000 per month without insurance.

[ALBliberal]

37. Blessings from a fellow Catholic from NM

Trying times friend. Sending light and love. You both have done such important work. Praying you will be ok.

[Earl_from_PA]

29. Sounds to me like just a statement of benefits already paid.

I get something similar from SSA every year, not of benefits paid, but benefits due. I am still working.

What was the title/subject of said letter?

[debm55]

36. This was just for his retirement year. No other year included.I will look and post tomorrow. Thank you Earl_from_PA. As

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[bdamomma]

38. Please go here.

Just posting this. Have you gone to this site.

https://www.afge.org

[debm55]

39. No but thank you for the site. I will give it to my husband when he wakes up