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

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Mon Feb 24, 2025, 08:01 PM

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

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My husband is a retired Federal worker. Retired as a GS14 He received a letter today from the Office of Personnel [View all] debm55 Feb 2025 OP

Are they going after his pension? Baitball Blogger Feb 2025 #1

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 debm55 Feb 2025 #2

Knowing $usk, they're probably going to want to claw back the COLAs. haele Feb 2025 #3

No cover letter. Just a print out of the start of his retirement.--pension, benifits.etc. debm55 Feb 2025 #5

Does the phone just ring or is there a message to press this or press that number? peacebuzzard Feb 2025 #7

Just rings he was on the phone for two hours. He went to the web site and it was down. debm55 Feb 2025 #17

Call your Senator and/or Representative. All offices have a caseworker to help in these allegorical oracle Feb 2025 #30

Thank you very much---my Senator is Fetterman. Lives 5 miles from my house. debm55 Feb 2025 #31

What did the letter say? Why did they send it? obamanut2012 Feb 2025 #4

There was no letter just a printout of his first year on retirement, After reading on here about making copies we made debm55 Feb 2025 #6

Question for you DaBronx Feb 2025 #9

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 debm55 Feb 2025 #32

No letter just his paper of the money he received since 2017. He worked at the Dept of the Interior--Bureau of Mines, debm55 Feb 2025 #18

kick debm55 Feb 2025 #8

Kick Hekate Feb 2025 #10

I am a retired GS13 also montanacowboy Feb 2025 #11

You got that right. Also pay a higher rate for all " bennies." Just asked my husband and he was a GS14 debm55 Feb 2025 #16

Sorry that was GS 14. debm55 Feb 2025 #19

Any context? Are they asking for something? IronLionZion Feb 2025 #12

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 debm55 Feb 2025 #21

It sounds like Musk is targeting the federal pension fund IronLionZion Feb 2025 #25

No just the printout of where his pension started. debm55 Feb 2025 #33

musk is wasting more money ecstatic Feb 2025 #13

My husband is recovering from Malignant Prostrate Cancer, he is depressed with that and now this. debm55 Feb 2025 #22

Awww debm55, ((())), I am so sorry... peacebuzzard Feb 2025 #40

This is the meritocracy of super genius qualifications IronLionZion Feb 2025 #26

Do retirees have any advocacy groups? jeffreyi Feb 2025 #14

Yes we have NARFE- National Association of Retired Federal Employees wishstar Feb 2025 #15

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 debm55 Feb 2025 #23

I have not received one. pwb Feb 2025 #20

Thank you , we will take turns on the speaker phone waiting for someone to pick up, tomorrow. as he had a cancer group debm55 Feb 2025 #24

This is chilling Lulu KC Feb 2025 #27

I will.Thank you. debm55 Feb 2025 #34

Thinking of you both my our main source ALBliberal Feb 2025 #28

Thank you , I taught in Catholic schools all my 40 years of teaching. Rich has completed 8 weeks of radiation in debm55 Feb 2025 #35

Blessings from a fellow Catholic from NM ALBliberal Feb 2025 #37

Sounds to me like just a statement of benefits already paid. Earl_from_PA Feb 2025 #29

This was just for his retirement year. No other year included.I will look and post tomorrow. Thank you Earl_from_PA. As debm55 Feb 2025 #36

Please go here. bdamomma Feb 2025 #38

No but thank you for the site. I will give it to my husband when he wakes up debm55 Feb 2025 #39