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Replying to: cooterbfd (Jun 24, 2009 2:37 pm) |
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Replying to: srs_49 (Jun 25, 2009 5:26 am) My Mom is in the federal gov't, and hit her 40 year mark last year. She had planned on retiring at the end of 2008, but they made it worth her while to stay on another year. She won't get social security, because she didn't pay into it as a gov't worker, and didn't get enough quarters in prior to going into the gov't. I forget now what she said she'd get in retirement. Something like 80% of her best 5 year average? Anyway, it's pretty sweet, IMO. However, she did pay into that retirement plan for 40 years, so I guess she's entitled to something. My grandmother's cousin was a GS13 in the gov't, and retired in 1980. I think her retirement is only around 30K or so per year. A GS13 starts at around $87K nowadays in the DC area, so somehow my grandmother's cousin fell through the cracks when it came to COLA adjustments! We used to have a lady working in our office who retired from the gov't when she turned 62, and then went back to work as a contractor. She had been a GS12, and was getting something like $60K in retirement. Something's not adding up here though. Maybe she had more years of service in than my grandmother's cousin? I have a friend who's a school teacher. I'll have to ask him what their retirement plan is. I know he pays into a retirement plan, but I think he also pays into social security.
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Replying to: fezo (Jun 24, 2009 11:37 am) |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jun 25, 2009 6:11 am) Those are all very good plans, even considering some of them required employee contributions. Tthey are all much better than most plans from private industry. And, I have yet to hear of a govt retiree having his pension reduced because the government failed to set aside enough money for it. I will have over 45 years in with my company if I stay 'til I'm 65. Our retirement plan required a contribution in the early years, but it was dropped along with reducing the benefits some time ago. When I retire, I will get something like 25% of my final average 3-year salary. After 45 years. That's the reality of pensions in the private sector nowadays.
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Replying to: srs_49 (Jun 25, 2009 6:39 am) Ouch! that's pretty painful, but I guess nowadays, any pension at all is a blessing. And 25% is a lot better than that $349.21 per month I get to see in another 26 years. I hope you're saving in other ways, such as 401k, IRA, etc. Sadly, that lady I mentioned who retired from the gov't and worked with us, was always whining about money problems, despite that ~$60K pension, plus working 3 days per week at around $25 per hour. Yet she always found the money to go on these 3 week cruises here and there.  She liked to whine at me for being cheap, but then would get defensive when I'd shoot back that at least I'm not still working in my 60's because I can't figure out how to budget on $60K per year. Yeah, she didn't like that too much. 
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jun 25, 2009 4:23 am) I know some are shaking their heads now at my greed, but didn't Uncle Sam rip it on us, give me back my SS overpayments and I'll shut up.
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jun 25, 2009 7:01 am)  . The only reason I brought it up is to contrast private sector pension benefits with those in the public sector, and why it's hard to sympathize with those retiring from various government entities who complain that they're only getting 70 or 80 percent of their final salary. |
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My ex is a civilian employee for the Navy in California. She started working there as a "temp" in 1987, then got hired on as a regular employee the following year. This means she's got 21 years in, so far. No plans to retire soon, I suspect - in fact, I heard she just got a promotion to her old boss' job (he/she retired). Now, she's trying to get my son on board at the base as well, doing clerical work. He'd start as a GS-4, which in CA means he would get $14+ per hour. He still wants to attend school in the evenings, though his chosen field (early childhood education) wouldn't pay nearly as well as the government job, nor come with the same level of benefits. |
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Replying to: wesleyg (Jun 25, 2009 7:24 am) I always thought that was a bit of a shaft, how they penalize your social security if you work too much in "retirement". I mean, if you paid in all those years, I think you should be entitled to your full benefit. I mean, you get taxed on SS payments anyway, don't you? Plus, when you took that Fortune 500 job, I presume you were paying into SS yet again. My grandmother retired from the federal gov't in 1980, same year as her cousin. She really didn't want to retire, as she was only 56 and liked to work, but the hospital she was working at got shuttered (and still sits abandoned to this day. It's a bit of a local landmark and the stuff of urban legend these days. Glenn Dale Hospital, if anyone wants to google it). She went back to work part time/on-call throughout the years, and had enough quarters in overall to get social security. I do remember though, that she always had to watch how much she made, so that it didn't penalize her. That lady that worked with us for a few years (she's still around too, I saw her in the K-mart across the street on her lunch break the other day), was always griping about social security, as well. I forget the details, but she was constantly fuming about some $562 per month that she thought she was owed, for her time in the private sector. However, there was some kind of "windfall" ruling or something like that in the early 80's that she said screwed her over.
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jun 25, 2009 7:53 am) Ida May Fuller worked for three years under the Social Security program. The accumulated taxes on her salary during those three years was a total of $24.75. Her initial monthly check was $22.54. During her lifetime she collected a total of $22,888.92 in Social Security benefits. Now that's a return on your SS contributions
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