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Information on this page is provided by Roseanne Jefferson.
Roseanne is a retired USPS employee with an extensive background in USPS
retirement, disability retirement, OWCP, EEO, Labor Relations and HR.
She conducts individual and group counseling and is able to
comprehensively discuss the pros and cons of employees who are on OWCP,
disability retirement and regular retirement. Roseanne will be happy
to answer your postal retirement questions. Contact Roseanne at
roseanne.jefferson@yahoo.com. |
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Postal
Retirement Q&A March 2011 (Special Edition)
Good Day
Postal Employees:
Big changes are coming!! Some districts are going away (no I don't
know yet which ones...nor do I think any final decisions have been
made). DUO is implemented in test area's, and coming very soon to
the rest of the offices. I have had so much email traffic from the
carriers throughout the country wanting to retire because of DUO.
The majority of my emails this month have been employee's relating
their fear of retirement. Some have attempted to calculate their own
retirement, and some have no understanding that each retirement
system(s) are so different from each other. Many employees seem to
be paralyzed in limbo, due to the lack of information they want,
when they call the Shared Services number. As the former Manager of
Personnel in the Greensboro District, I could look out my window and
see HRSSC, as they are across the parking lot from the district
office. Understand however, the employees in our district DID NOT
get any special treatment because of the proximity of the HRSSC
site. We were told that right upfront...don't even go there because
WE (HRSSC) are across the street. They did not feel that Greensboro
NC employees should have any advantage to their office, and they
were right, it would be unfair to the rest of the country. In being
honest many of my staff (personnel employees) choose to apply at
HRSSC and why wouldn't they! They knew their jobs were being
eliminated. All of them were chosen for positions there. I trained 2
additional (detailed) personnel staff's (aside from my original
staff) while all of the HRSSC changes were being implemented, and
all my employees (detailed) were selected for positions at HRSSC.
I had an upfront understanding of the vast and overwhelming changes,
and how it affected the nature of information being given to the
employees. This was most evident as it related to retirement
information. The employees that work throughout the Greensboro
district were and are far more knowledgeable about retirement, and
not because of HRSSC being in that city, it's because I am still
here. I have said many times, how can you ask questions that you
don't know to ask or even what to ask? Even when you do ask, there
is only so much information the Service Center is able to give you.
The rest is up to you...but what if you don't have a clue as to what
"the rest" of it is!!!
The AWPU has hired me to do 4 group retirement seminars in
Greensboro North Carolina, in the month of March and April. The NALC
is negotiating with me in the Greensboro District as well. I have
been to Atlanta this month to do a few individual sessions. They
were so spur of the moment, that I did not have time to even post in
this column that I was going to be there so see if anyone was
interested in having me do any individual sessions. Therefore, I am
announcing that I will be in the Orlando/ Ocala/ Daytona Beach area
at the end of March to the beginning of April. If anyone is
interested in an individual session please contact me at
roseanne.jefferson@yahoo.com. If there are any unions that would be
interested in discussing a future group session, please contact me,
as the summer dates are filling up fast. As information on my
individual seminar, I will go over what an employee/pre-annuitant
can expect. I review will your annuity statement, fill out all of
your retirement paperwork, explain the mysteries and the misleading
information that is on the annuity statement as it relates to your
basic life insurance; I calculate your federal taxes, explain
spousal benefits and show you how to maximize this benefit for your
spouse as it relates to health insurance; I discuss and guide you on
your TSP (if applicable); military buy-back (if applicable), and
finally expose some social security myths. At the end of the
session, you will have a clear and concise understanding of how
money NET money you will have to live on when you retire, and isn't
that what everyone really wants to know!!!
As far as disability retirement and OWCP as they relate to each
other, I have completed many employee's papers. I explain the
reasoning of disability retirement approvals and disapproval. I will
show how a social security disability retirement is so different
from a FERS or CSRS disability retirement. Again, if there are any
interested in an individual session or union's wanting some dialogue
for a group session please contact me for available dates and
fees. - Roseanne |
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