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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are able to find another job with health insurance then you can do a deferred retirement where you don’t collect your pension or get health benefits until 62 but beginning at 62 you get an unreduced pension and health benefits. [/quote]

Sorry it’s postponed retirement not deferred retirement

https://fedemploymentattorneys.com/legal-blog/fers-deferred-retirement-vs-fers-postponed-retirement/[/quote]

OP here.  Yes, this is what I was going to do to get the unreduced pension,  BUT I wanted my health benefits to continue when retiring at 57.  That's the real sticking point.

And the benefits concern is not really for me, but for my medically stable (but medically complicated) son who will be starting college around the time I planned on retiring.

He may need a surgery in his young adulthood, and I don't want to chance it by getting rinky dink insurance in that five year time span from 57 to 62, should he need it during those years.

But I like the idea of doing a GS 9 job in that five years...if I can get hired at that level. [/quote]

It seems like you have at least five years before 57 so take some time and figure out how your current skills can transfer elsewhere and if they are lacking take some classes or training to make yourself marketable. I don’t know where you work now and exactly what you do but look at FEMA, HHS, NIH, Defense, etc. My agency has an Accommodations and Disabilty Coordinator, look for jobs like that in OHR around the government or the Emergency Preparedness Specialists. [/quote]

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