Day 1
- Review of Retirement Eligibility
- Service Computation Dates
- Leave
- Retirement
- Hazardous Duty
- RIF
- TSP
- Calculation of High-3 Average Salary
- Specific Firefighter Pay Rules
- Deposit/Redeposit/Military Deposit Rules for and Consequences of Not Taking Action
- Credit for Sick Leave (GS-081 Firefighter Conversion Rules)
- Lump Sum Annual Leave Payment
- FERS Basic Benefit and Annuity Supplement
- Benefit Formulas
- COLA Rules
- Survivor’s Benefits Death-in-Service
- Not Work-Related
- Work-Related
- Survivor’s Benefits Elections at Retirement
- Cost
- Benefit
- Considerations
- Firefighter’s Death Benefit
- Disability Benefits (Not Work-Related)
- Fitness for Duty
- Worker’s Compensation Benefits
- Rules & Requirements
Day 2
- FEHB
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Care
- Dependent Care
- Health Savings Accounts
- Federal Employee’s Dental and Vision Insurance Program
- Long Term Care Insurance
- FEGLI
- Designation of Beneficiaries
- Thrift Savings Plan
- Withdrawal Options
- Tax Implications
- Penalty if Retiring Before Age 50
- Catch-up Provisions
- Social Security Provisions
- Full Retirement Age
- Quarters of Coverage
- Earnings Test
- Annuity Supplement (FERS)
- When Payable
- How Calculated
- When Earnings Tested
- When it Disappears
- Rules of Reemployment in Federal Government