It represents what you would receive for
your FERS civilian service from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and is calculated as if you were eligible to receive SSA benefits on the day you retired.
Not exact matches
The Special Supplement approximates the portion of an estimated Social Security benefit that you would earn during
civilian service that is creditable toward the
FERS portion of your annuity.
Under
FERS, if you die while you are a Federal employee, and have more than 18 months of creditable
civilian service but less than 10 years of total
service, your eligible spouse will receive a two - part
FERS benefit.
However, if you have federal
civilian employment periods when you did not contribute to either the Civil
Service Retirement System (CSRS) or the Federal Employees Retirement System (
FERS), we automatically apply excess contributions toward any deposit due for these employment periods.