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Federal Retirement And Benefits Counselor

GKG is seeking a Federal Retirement and Benefits Counselor to join our growing team in support of a federal agency. The position is fully remote.

This role provides counseling services to Federal customers making decisions on their Retirement and Benefits. This include providing one-on-one counseling services and supporting package submission to OPM and processing of internal Agency actions to complete out-processing.

Duties:

• Engage with employees to support assessment of retirement readiness, including regular, early, postponed, deferred, discontinued service, disability, relationship with programs like DRP.
• Interpret governing policies and regulations and counsel employees to regarding the consequences of retirement readiness, timeliness, and decision to proceed. Counseling topics include:
• Eligibility for Retirement
• Determining High-3
• Computation of Annuity
• FERS Annuity Supplement
• Disability Benefits
• Crediting Civilian & Military Service
• Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLA)
• Voluntary Contributions
• Special Group of Employees (Law Enforcement Officers, Firefighters, Congressional employees, etc.)
• Deposits/Redeposits
• Annual Leave Payment and Sick Leave Computation
• Application for Retirement
• Processing of Retirement Application
• Survivor Benefits
• Social Security
• Medicare
• Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)
• Federal Group Life Insurance (FEGLI)Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB)
• Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Program (FEDVIP)
• Long Term Care Insurance (LTC)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Other Financial Planning Strategies
• Prepare Service Computation Date Reports and process the employees Change in Service Computation Date NOA in the HRIS.
• Review eOPF to extract information to calculate the Retirement Estimates.
• Identify gaps in eOPF and support records request actions.
• Identify and calculate Military and/or Civilian Deposit(s)
• Support completion of necessary required Forms and Reports and submit to the HRIS Deposit Section to establish the employees Military Deposit account or submit to OPM as appropriate.
• Prepare Retirement packages for the employees review/signature prior to processing the personnel action for SF-2806 creation.
• Rapidly respond to client communications to support timely employee package and preparation processing.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Experience developing or delivering Federal Retirement programs or;
• Experience delivering one-on-one Federal Retirement counseling, or;
• Experience Federal Retirement package preparation, submission, and processing.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in two or more of the requirements
• Experience across FERS, CSRS, Offset, VERA/VSIP, Discontinued Retirement, and LEO retirement programs
• Experience submitting retirement package on OPM portal