Retirement and Separation from DLA Employment

Retirement from Federal Service

Start planning for your retirement soon after you are hired. Sound financial planning is a part of your retirement strategy. Don’t wait until you are a few years away from retirement to start your plan. Contact your organization’s training coordinator for pre-retirement course 10 years out as well as 5 years to ensure you will have a retirement plan, and financial security. Your retirement is processed and maintained through the Office of Personnel Management. Click the OPM Retirement Webpage  for resources you will need once you have retired.

Planning Your Retirement 

Don’t wait until the last minute!

• Considerations if You are Thinking of Retirement (PDF) - a downloadable document with information to prepare you for planning your retirement (This is edited on a separate document) Planning your retirement within 5 years or less 

• The Retirement Guide (PDF) will provide you with in-depth information on what you need to do to prepare for retirement. If you are unsure of the type of retirement coverage you have, please visit your Electronic Official Personnel Folder (EOPF). Select your latest SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action. Locate block 30 on the form.

Benefits into Retirement

• Thrift Savings Plan  (TSP) - what you need to know when planning for retirement

  • Employees age 50 or older may contribute an additional $5,500 on a pre-tax basis as a “Catch-up” contribution

  • TSP annuity calculators  - estimate your retirement annuities

• Social Security Benefits - based on 35 years of earnings in the Social Security System. These earnings include both federal and non-federal.

  • Social Security benefits planners  -- to help better understand Social Security protection as you plan for your financial future

  • Social Security calculators   - estimate your retirement benefit  

• Disability Information

  • Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) (PDF)

  • Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) (PDF)

• Long-Term Life Insurance

• Healthcare Insurance

• Federal Employee Dental and Vision Plan care-- You will receive a letter informing you BENEFEDS has been notified of your retirement and that your FEDVIP plan premiums will be deducted from your annuity once adjudication has been finalized.

• Federal Employee Group Life Insurance

• Benefits Administration Letters

  • National Defense Authorization Act Retirement Changes, January 12, 2010 (PDF)

  • Guidance from the National Defense Authorization Act FY10 Provisions on Sick Leave for FERS Retirees, February 22, 2011 (DOC)

Retirement Estimate Information

• If your retirement date is more than two years from now, you should use the Retirement Calculators in the The GRB Platform™    (CAC-protected, current DLA and DHA HR-serviced employees only.).

• hrPRO Retirement Estimate Request (Online Worksheet) (DoD Customers Only)  
  The Retirement Estimate Request System (RERS) contains a CAC enabled online worksheet that is the preferred method to use when requesting a retirement estimate for a retirement date that is within the next two years. If your retirement date is more than two years from now, you should use the Retirement Calculator in EBIS. The worksheet will auto populate your name, activity, organization code and servicing office. It will also allow you to save your request as a draft, permitting you to go back to the worksheet to make any changes before submitting to the appropriate office.

Please note: The DLA Benefits Center will only prepare one estimate per year per employee.

DLA Employees Separating

Separations are actions that end employment with an agency other than retirement. A separation may include: resignations; terminations; removals; separations due to reduction in force; separations to enter the uniformed services; and deaths. If you are separating, please contact your Benefits Office   to discuss how your separation will impact your benefits. Some things to consider if you are separating:

• Thrift Savings Plan-After leaving Federal Service  

• Federal Employees Retirement System--Facts for Separating Employees who are not eligible for an immediate annuity  

• Death and Survivor benefits  

• Termination, Conversion and Temporary Continuation of Coverage  

• Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program  

• Federal Employee Group Life Insurance  

• Federal Employees Health Benefits changes due to a Qualifying Life Event  - if you are a participant in premium conversion, once your election takes effect it is irrevocable, unless you have a Qualifying Life Event.  

• Flexible Spending Account  

• Retiring or separating from DLA? Please take our exit survey!

  • ​Exit Survey FAQs (PDF)