I have 36 years of part time service all meeting the required hours needed and 55 years old.
Can I retire now and get the benefits of the new Contract or do I have to wait until next year or any magical date?
Why do you want to give up a $30.00 an hour PT job. Work 20 hours a week for $30 K a year with full health care and 7 weeks paid vacation. You must have a gravy job after 36 years. I know I do.
You definitely have a point. My response was aimed more at InsideUPS or someone that has insight into the retirement process & obtaining the improved pension/dental vision as early as possible. I'm full time feeder & want a different life without the constraints of the obligatory time clock of 40+ hours weekly of my time. I have other quests that need explored! Also would like my sleep patterns to improve and not have to switch from days to nights on weekends & then back to days again. It's not normal. Has to be more to life than a defined schedule you must continually be aware of and adhere to; and that restrains you from other interests. Not bitter, It's been rewarding. I've been planning and ready; just waiting for this new contract to take effect. Enjoy the gravy!
Are you going to take your 7 weeks of vacation in January and Feb. before you retire? Seems like thats a cool way to go out.
Are you going to take your 7 weeks of vacation in January and Feb. before you retire? Seems like thats a cool way to go out.
I couldn't get a clear answer as to when my exact retirement date should be until I started the process by sending paperwork to Atlanta and then finally found out I needed to work 2 months longer to get another year of credit. So I hung around for 2 months longer to get a little larger pension. Worth it to me. It would have been much easier if the (correct) information was easily obtained.
Hope that these new retiree benefits will be retroactive back to unspecified eligibility date after the contract ratification procedure is completed.
I've worked in Central States, Florida region. I sold back 6 vacation weeks plus the 58 hours of option pay. Leaves me with just one personal holiday. I could retire now but the continuing struggles to ratify the 2013-2018 contract has hindered my plan.
My objective is to qualify for the additional $200/ month pension + dental insurance + vision insurance and also qualify & start receiving monthly pension for January 2014. I couldn't use (during peak) or need my vacations as a time qualifier, so I cashed in. Why run off the vacation for time off when you also have time served for old pension and maybe the new one? I desire the cash from both sources (vacation & pension payment).
I just need to know the prerequisites (hours worked, holiday pay, a punch, etc.) to be eligible for the new pension benefits, and hope it requires little time so not to threaten January's monthly pension payment.
I couldn't get a clear answer as to when my exact retirement date should be until I started the process by sending paperwork to Atlanta and then finally found out I needed to work 2 months longer to get another year of credit. So I hung around for 2 months longer to get a little larger pension. Worth it to me. It would have been much easier if the (correct) information was easily obtained.
I still can't get over the fact that it seemed as though I was the first person to ever retire from UPS.
I still can't get over the fact that it seemed as though I was the first person to ever retire from UPS.
EVERY person is treated like they are the first person. And when I tried to get help from union they acted like I was the first person to ever complain. And you don't get more per month. Its either a whole year's credit or nothing, based on calendar year and not your seniority date. Here I needed to work until mid Sept to get credit for the whole year. And you should retire on 1st of month, not middle of month so I worked until Oct 1.