House Bill Introduced to Promote Temporary Rehiring Of Retirees
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), ranking member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, yesterdsay introduced legislation (HR 3579) that would allow federal agencies to rehire federal retirees on a temporary basis to help alleviate workforce shortages within the federal government.
Davis’ legislation, The Re-Employment of Annuitants Act of 2007, would allow rehires to assist with short-term projects, fill critical skills gaps and train the next generation of the federal workforce without losing their annuity benefits.
Under current law, if retired federal employees return to work as part-timers, they either must suspend receiving their annuities or receive a salary reduced by the amount they would’ve received from the annuity – known as an offset. The Office of Personnel Management, which requested this legislation, already makes exception to this rule for positions it considers exceptionally difficult to fill.
Under this legislation, agencies could waive this offset requirement for federal annuitants who accept part-time positions. They would receive both salary and annuity payments during their time of service but would receive no additional retirement benefits based on their service.
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Buttercup on
Fri, 21st Sep 2007 10:37 am
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jack on
Fri, 21st Sep 2007 2:31 pm
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route9 on
Mon, 24th Sep 2007 1:46 pm
MMMMM….hire folks that have retired to take their own place. I wonder if these folks coming back would be the labor part of the workforce. NOT!! Probably office workers. Who would come back to the stuff they left? Go figure.
Only if I was desperate! However if you could apply it to Social Security quarters, then I could see it for some. I’m not going to be getting it but happily retired anyway!
how about letting federal workers keep their full ss as part of this legislation also.as it is now a worker can have all the ss money he’s earned taken away through offset.this is an egregious error that has to be corrected.
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