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Appendix F: Foreign Service Pension System (FSPS) (Retirement Coverage Code P)

Unreduced retirement benefits are available at the following age and service combinations:

See Frozen-CSRS-Service on IRIS Program IR114 for length of frozen service. Frozen service is the total number of years and months of civilian and military service that is creditable in a CSRS component of a FERS employee. The employee must have completed 5 years of creditable civilian service before becoming subject to CSRS offset or before the election date of FERS coverage.

Retirement Formulas Used:

If the employee has transferred from FERS to FSPS:

  1. Compute Years of Service as [Years of FERS Service + Years of FSPS Service].
  2. Compute [1.7% x First 20 Years of Service].
  3. Compute [1% x Remaining Years of Service].
  4. Compute [Step 2 + Step 3].
  5. Compute [Retirement High-3 x Step 4].
  6. Compute [Step 5 x 12].

    For part-time employees (Work Schedules P, Q, S, and T), the monthly annuity is then prorated by the employee's PP 01 tour of duty. This is done because the tour-of-duty proration is not available.

  7. Compute [Step 6 x (PP 01 Tour-of-Duty Hours / 80)].

If the employee has transferred from FSRDS to FSPS and has less than 5 years of FSRDS service:

Use steps shown above as if the employee transferred from FERS to FSPS.

If the employee has transferred from FSRDS to FSPS and has more than 5 years of FSRDS service:

  1. Compute [Total Years of Service - Frozen-CSRS-Service].
  2. Compute 2% x Frozen-CSRS-Service - Subject to a maximum of [(Retirement High-3 x 70%) x 12].
  3. Compute [Retirement High-3 x Step 2].
  4. Compute [Step 3 / 12].
  5. Compute [1.7% x First 20 Years of Step 1].
  6. If Frozen-CSRS-Service > 20, Compute [1% x (Frozen-CSRS-Service - 20)].
  7. Compute [Step 5 + Step 6].
  8. Compute [Retirement High-3 x Step 7].
  9. Compute [Step 8 / 12].
  10. Compute [Step 4 + Step 9].

    For part-time employees (Work Schedules P, Q, S, and T), the monthly annuity is then prorated by the employee's PP 01 tour of duty. This is done because the full tour-of-duty proration is not available.

  11. Compute [Step 10 x (PP 01 Tour-of-Duty Hours / 80)].

If the employee has transferred from CSRS to FERS to FSPS:

  1. Follow CSRS retirement formulas shown in Appendix D: Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and CSRS-Offset Retirement (Retirement Coverage Codes 1, C, and R) using Frozen-CSRS-Service as the employee's years of service.
  2. Compute [Total Years of Service - Frozen-CSRS-Service].
  3. Follow FERS to FSPS retirement formula shown above using Step 2 as the employee's Years of Service.
  4. Compute [Step 1 + Step 3].

    For part-time employees (Work Schedules P, Q, S, and T), the monthly annuity is then prorated by the employee's PP 01 tour of duty. This is done because the full tour-of-duty proration is not available.

  5. Compute [Step 4 x (PP 01 x Tour-of-Duty Hours / 80)].