Turning sixty two and am on Postal disability and SSDI.

[alfredo]

I was wondering what will happen when I reach retirement age.

I found this on the OPM page.

I am receiving a Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) disability benefit. Will my benefit ever change?

If you were under 62 when your disability benefit began, and were not eligible for a voluntary immediate benefit, your benefit will be recomputed after you have been retired for 12 months. The recomputed annuity will be 40 percent of your high-3 average salary minus 60 percent of your monthly Social Security benefit, or your earned benefit, whichever is higher.

At age 62, your benefit is recomputed as though you had continued working until age 62. (Your average salary is increased by all FERS Cost-of-Living Adjustments paid while you were disabled.)



Can you give me an idea how this works?

[Pharaoh]

1. I have no clue

you'll have to get ahold of OPM and get a human on the phone to explain it(easier said than done I know):rofl:

But still possible if you are persistent.

[alfredo]

2. I had given up on getting a response. I got a notice today

that seems to show I will take a big hit of about $180. Not sure I am reading it right. One one hand it appears I am getting a $138 adjustment, and that seems to be in the plus column. I guess I will have to call.

[Megahurtz]

3. When you reach Retirement Age

you will get your O.P.M. Disability and you will get your Social Security Retirement as separate
(I think?)
In other words, the full amount you are getting as a total of both right now will be coming from O.P.M. only, and you will be getting a separate Social Security payment as if you had worked on up until 65.

I could be wrong, but I think that's how it works.

[hashibabba]

4. From what I understand, SSDI will automatically switch over to

regular Social Security payments. I'm assuming you'd have your postal disability for life.