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retirement update; Soft Start May 1

skyking1

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It's an odd situation for me. Work is really slow and I go in and make some hours, but that is personally not fulfilling in the least.
Pension on May 1= roughly 1.9 weeks gross pay. I can work 1.25 weeks and stay in the pension indefinitely.
My medical benefits take about 128 hours of work for a month, so my hour bank will dwindle down to nothing sometime early in '25 if I go that route.
I had a plan of working as much as I could while building the house, and retiring when we could move. Maybe that 50 hours is it and I go into the plan now.
If I wait, there would be a small increase based on the month of retirement, plus any contributions. If I worked enough to make up the difference between being on the pension plus the 50 hours, I would have a heck of a time building the house.
 
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