NAVAIR deferred resignation program

PeoplesElbow

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Oh really, because I got $21k and I assumed others would get more.
According to the SS website the maximum monthly payment at age 62 is a touch more than $2800/month, the supplement is half that. $2800 a month is $33,600 so half that is $16,800.

Correction, not sure where I got that the supplement was 1/2 of what you would get for SS at 62, the formula is quite a bit more complicated.
 
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spr1975wshs

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According to the SS website the maximum monthly payment at age 62 is a touch more than $2800/month, the supplement is half that. $2800 a month is $33,600 so half that is $16,800.
I took SS early to pay down debt we accumulated when my wife was out of work from August 1997 - August 2012 due to the effects her service connected disabilities, including PTSD. I get a reduced payment now 3 years after hitting 65.
 

Gilligan

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I've heard if you work around nitroglycerin long term that you don't want to retire because you have a heart attack from the withdrawal.
I worked with NG directly - literally hands-on dealing with double-base propellants - and some of the folks I worked with had been exposed to it for their entire careers at RAAP or Indian Head. I did get so-called "NG headaches" if I stayed too long in poorly ventilated space with the stuff. Can't say I ever heard the heart attack story. In any event, most of the old nitrocellulose and NG based propellants have long since been replaced with compositions that are fare less sensitive (harder to light off or detonate) and containing no NG. Hydroxy-terminated poly-butadiene (HTPB) with toluene, for example.
 

OccamsRazor

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The gullible people were the ones who agreed to retire under the DRP thinking they would have the SS supplement until age 62 and then finding out "whoops, were taking that away in the new budget and you will have $20-30k less a year to live on in retirement then you thought you would".
Gullible? How so??
Elimination of the special retirement supplement without a grandfather clause to those who are not new hires is straight up theft! I can see that and I don't even work for the GOV.
 

PeoplesElbow

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I worked with NG directly - literally hands-on dealing with double-base propellants - and some of the folks I worked with had been exposed to it for their entire careers at RAAP or Indian Head. I did get so-called "NG headaches" if I stayed too long in poorly ventilated space with the stuff. Can't say I ever heard the heart attack story. In any event, most of the old nitrocellulose and NG based propellants have long since been replaced with compositions that are fare less sensitive (harder to light off or detonate) and containing no NG. Hydroxy-terminated poly-butadiene (HTPB) with toluene, for example.
That must have been great. My buddy in college did drug studies on the weekend for cash, they would pay him to take NG and have a headache to try various remedies on him. Not a bad deal, $300 for a weekend and they fed them and rented them anything they wanted from Blockbuster.

Was a guy that used to work at IH that told me about everyone he worked with retiring having a heart attack soon after.
 

Gilligan

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That must have been great. My buddy in college did drug studies on the weekend for cash, they would pay him to take NG and have a headache to try various remedies on him. Not a bad deal, $300 for a weekend and they fed them and rented them anything they wanted from Blockbuster.

Was a guy that used to work at IH that told me about everyone he worked with retiring having a heart attack soon after.
The headaches were not that bad; you felt one coming on and that was your clue to quit handling the stuff for that day.

I honestly don't know a single person I worked with at RAAP or Indian Head that died of a heart attack after retiring...or even before. And that is quite a few folks, some of them well up in years now. Outcomes differ I guess...

I did drug studies in college too!..what a coincidence.
 

KingFish

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I had to look up what RAAP stood for and finally found Radford Army Ammunition Plant (RFAAP) after first seeing a lot of useless acronyms. Interesting history from the Army webpage.
 

PeoplesElbow

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The headaches were not that bad; you felt one coming on and that was your clue to quit handling the stuff for that day.

I honestly don't know a single person I worked with at RAAP or Indian Head that died of a heart attack after retiring...or even before. And that is quite a few folks, some of them well up in years now. Outcomes differ I guess...

I did drug studies in college too!..what a coincidence.
How did it get into your system, was it from breathing it or skin contact?
 

Gilligan

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I had to look up what RAAP stood for and finally found Radford Army Ammunition Plant (RFAAP) after first seeing a lot of useless acronyms. Interesting history from the Army webpage.
It's an interesting place...I accumulated quite a few stories while working there. The Chief Government Engineer had been there since the plant was opened in WWII!....he picked me to be his successor. The paperwork was all done when a production line accident, that should not have happened, took out five of "my people". I decided it was time to find a different career path.

I wonder when - and why - they changed the acronym to RFAAP? It was just RAAP back when I worked there.
 
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