Review Official handbook page
You may need these when you are no longer an employee
- Employee Express
- Benefeds (dental and vision insurance)
- The website for your medical insurance
- FSAFEDS
- TSP
Log into Employee Express
- Write down your login information for employee express. You can't get this back after you leave GSA.
- Switch your W2s to Hard Copy On (This means you will get mailed your W2)
- Download all of your paystubs
Log into GSA HR Links
- Make sure your address is up to date
- Spend down your FSA if you can. That money is lost when you leave government.
- If you are planning to apply for the government version of COBRA, be sure to do the paperwork as early as possible.
- If you have been in government for less than 5 years, and you are leaving government now, consider getting a FERS contribution refund. Since you are forced to pay 4.4% of your pay to FERS while you are a government employee, getting it back is worth your time.
- Your refund will have two parts: contributions and interest
- Interest can be rolled over into your (not ROTH) TSP account.
- Contributions can be rolled over into a ROTH IRA, but not your ROTH TSP. You can also roll these over into a Traditional IRA, but I don't recommend it.
- You'll have to fill out three forms. SF-3106 to withdraw your FERS contributions. TSP-60 to roll over the interest to the TSP. And whatever forms your ROTH IRA financial firm requires for rollovers.
- Go through your Google Drive, computer harddrive, Slack files, and anywhere else you have documents.
- Retain anything that is a government record in an appropriate way.
- Consider deleting anything that doesn't need to be retained.
- Note that your boss will inherit your Google Drive files into their Google Drive account when you leave GSA.