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AFSA Retiree Page

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Welcome to AFSA's Webpage for Foreign Affairs retirees

AFSA is working to protect the future for its retiree and active-duty members and their survivors. This involves:

Keeping members well informed about complicated federal benefit issues through our Newsletter, AFSANet updates, the Foreign Service Journal and our Web page

Providing assistance and counseling to members

Assisting and intervening on behalf of members seeking department assistance

Monitoring legislation that affects federal retirement and health benefits

Working with similar organizations to protect and improve those benefits

Increasing our retiree membership in order to become a more powerful voice for protecting federal benefits

If you recently retired and did not fill out a form to change from active-duty to retiree membership, you can download the necessary forms by clicking Member Area on the banner at the top of this page and then clicking on Retiree under Membership Programs, Please mail the completed membership and automatic annuity deduction forms to AFSA at 2101 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037, or fax them to (202) 338-6820.

AFSA needs you. Please take a moment and join.

AFSA Retiree Staff

Bonnie Brown, Retiree Counseling and Legislative Coordinator, can be reached Monday through Wednesday at (202) 944-5509 or 1 (800) 704-2372, ext. 509, or at brown@afsa.org.

AFSA Retiree Newsletters

Please click here to read the AFSA retiree newsletters.

AFSA Retiree Updates

Please click here to read the AFSA retiree updates.

Retiree Activities and Public Outreach

• Campus Recruitment
• Elderhostel
• Legislative
• Retiree Association Announcements
• Retiree Associations
• Speakers Bureau

Current Issues and Updates

• Foreign Affairs Day for State Department Retirees
• Foreign Affairs Day Reception

AFSA Retiree Guidance

• Annuity Deductions
• Class Action Suit: Unused Annual Leave
• Death of An Annuitant
• Former Spouse Benefits
• FSPS Annuity Supplement
• IRS Guidance: Premium Conversion and Public Safety Officers
• Long-Term Care Insurance FAQ
• OPM Medicare and FEHB FAQs
• Medicare B and the FEHBP
• Medicare Basics
• Medicare D

◊ Medicare D: Prescription Drug Coverage
◊ Medicare D Alert
• Other Retiree Issues

◊ OPM Policy Guidelines on Overpayments
◊ The Hatch Act and WAEs
◊ FEHB Retiree Form
◊ How to make CFC Deductions
• Social Security Offsets: WEP and GPO
• Survivor Benefits: Dependent Children
• Survivor Annuitites: The Mechanics
• Things To Do Before Your 65th Birthday
• WAE Employment
• What Your Spouses Need To Know
• Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) Chart

Resources and Links

• Blue Cross and Blue Shield
• Federal Dental and Vision Insurance Program new
• Federal Employees Group Life Insurance
• Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
• Foreign Affairs and Other Associations
• Foreign Service Benefit Plan
• FSI-Career Transition Center
• Long Term Care Programs

◊ Federal LTC
◊ www.hirshorn.com
• Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Senior Living Foundation
• Social Security Administration
• Thrift Savings Plan

State Department Information

• 2007 Annuitant Newsletter (.doc)
• Consular Bureau clarification of waiver authority for WAEs hired for passport processing
• From the department: 2007 Tax Guide to Your Federal Pension
• HR/RET New Workload Management Procedures
• Other Publications
• Retiree Access to State Department
• Retirement Accounts Division Contacts
• Retirement Office Contacts
• Retirement Network (RNET) Alumni Organization

Legislative Updates-Retiree Benefits

• WEP and GPO Bills Examined
◊ Locate Your Congressman
◊ AFSA Positions
◊ Lateral Entry Announcement (PDF)
◊ Form Letters

◊ Social Security Reform
◊ More About Social Security Reform
◊ Social Security and Progressive Indexing
◊ Social Security Tweaks and Their Projected Savings

Job and Volunteer Opportunities

• FSI/Career Transition Center
• Jobs
• Skills Database
• Volunteer Activities

AFSA 2006 Directory of Retired Members - Advertising Index

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DACOR - www.dacorbacon.org
Goodwin House, Inc. - www.goodwinhouse.org
Hirshorn Company - www.hirshorn.com
Harry Jannette International - www.jannetteintl.com
Prudential Caruthers - foreignservicehomes.com
State Department Federal Credit Union - www.sdfcu.org
The Virginian Suites - www.potomacsuites.com
Thompson, O'Donnel, Markham, Norton & Hannon - www.thompson-odonnell.com