The Benefits Office offers seminars to NIH employees in all stages of their Federal career. Learn more about your retirement system, how military service affects your retirement eligibility, contributions to Social Security, and the Thrift Savings Plan by reviewing the information below.
Retirement Planning
Your federal record history should be complete and accurate prior to retirement. You are encouraged to review your personnel records in your electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF).
OPM’s booklet, Thinking about Retirement (RI 38-011), provides an overview of the most important things Federal employees need to do when planning for retirement.
Refer to the NIH Financial Awareness page for seminars to help you financially plan for retirement throughout your career.
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Requesting A Retirement Estimate
Requesting a retirement estimate can help you better plan for retirement. Your Retirement Specialist in the Retirement and Employee Benefits Branch will review your federal history and prepare a retirement estimate to send to you via email.
How to Request an Estimate:
• The WiTS portal is the preferred way to request a retirement estimate.
• The GRB Platform may be used to project your own estimate.
The Retirement and Employee Benefits Branch is committed to provide excellent customer service. While the anticipated turn around for retirement estimates within a year to be 4-6 weeks, and 6-8 weeks for estimates one to five years away.
You may experience slight delays in receiving estimates from October – December. During these months our office is heavily focused on Benefits Open Season and year end retirements. Note: If you are retiring at the end of this year, your request will be prioritized. We appreciate your patience during this timeframe.
Employees seeking an urgent retirement estimate or an estimate for retirement planned more than five years in the future, we recommend utilizing the GRB Platform to project your own estimate.
Applying for Retirement
Refer to the applicable NIH retirement system page for details on how to apply to FERS or CSRS retirement.
Phased Retirement Information
Phased Retirement is not yet available within HHS. NIH is awaiting a decision from HHS on when Phased Retirement will be implemented.
Upon establishment of the HHS policy and availability of the program to NIH employees, information will be disseminated via various communication sources such as NIH-wide Listserv notices, Benefits Newsletter, and HR News.
For additional information on Phased Retirement visit the Phased Retirement page on OPM’s website.
Seminars
Navigate to the Retirement Workshops page to register for retirement seminars. There are seminars available for early, mid, and late career employees.
Find other sessions on the Benefits Events Calendar.