Vanity: how To accept buyout with retirement date after September 30

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[WhattheDickens?]

"If your retirement date is between October 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025, you are still eligible for deferred resignation (unless your position is exempted from the deferred resignation program by your agency). If your retirement date is within this window, your deferred resignation date will be extended to match your retirement date."

Asking for advice on details of selecting a retirement date that is after September 30. If you reply to email with "resign and retire" would you take all the days after September 30 as vacation?

[WhattheDickens?]

Trying to make sure of full retirement benefits for beneficiaries if, for example, the employee passes away before their retirement date?

[rktman]

Well, timmy kaine claimed they won’t be paying folks until Sept 30 to sit around and do nothing. What say you dems? You concur with timmy?

[kingu]

You’d already be on extended vacation. It’d just be extended to your retirement date. In the meantime, you continue to accrue all benefits including sick leave and vacation time, which will be paid out at the time of your retirement.

[cgbg]

This is a great source on this stuff—contact them directly if the long article and links did not answer your question:

https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/02/02/more-info-and-clarification-from-opm-on-deferred-resignation-program/

[PAR35]

you continue to accrue all benefits including sick leave and vacation time, which will be paid out at the time of your retirement.

They may have changed things in the last decade or so, but it used to be sick leave wasn't paid out, but added to time of service which would boost your retirement pay if you retired early.

[SunkenCiv]

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