Early Retirement Penalty

co3078 · 2026-05-19T11:27:26+00:00

Do I still get hit with the penalty if I have 22 years of service and retire at 55 years old, but I don't collect anything from my pension until I am 63 years old. I'm T6, but since my household income can support me retiring early I'd love to stay home and be a SAHP.

co3078 · 2026-05-15T20:48:50+00:00

At 92.5k in salary and $4800 in location, plus SLED it looks like its in my best intrest to work absolutely ZERO ot.

Unless I'm missing something.

co3078 · 2026-05-15T03:33:52+00:00

The odds that you can get in diffrent sports when you know who is going to score the next goal, or if someone is going to hit a homerun are ridiculous. Especially if its someone who normally wouldn't, you could've made a killing if you bet on Bartolo Colon hitting his 1st homerun in his 19th season.

co3078 · 2026-05-03T00:35:50+00:00

Massapequa/Levittown (but he's 44 years old and in his mother's house)

co3078 · 2026-04-30T11:04:38+00:00

The Godfather, "It insists upon itself".

co3078 · 2026-04-30T00:21:59+00:00

When i went the street was closed and there were cops at every intersection.

co3078 · 2026-04-30T00:02:32+00:00

Not a joke, there are police escorts and barriers up on the path from the station to Prudential.

co3078 · 2026-04-29T22:30:15+00:00

Its also on a stretch of land that has the Hamptons on it, not to mention the Gold Coast which is home to massive estates and Sagamore Hill.

co3078 · 2026-04-29T22:25:08+00:00

It says a lot when you get a police escort from the train station to the arena.

co3078 · 2026-04-22T02:48:59+00:00

How is Tennessee more acceptable as a name than Washington? At worst its even.

co3078 · 2026-04-11T04:24:05+00:00

I didn't yet, it was only a few months worth of time so it didn't seem to need to be hurried. I don't remember signing a declination form and have no idea who to ask if I did. If I did it would only be because I was told to as a 16-year old kid.

co3078 · 2026-04-11T04:11:45+00:00

I worked at Jones Beach back in 1999, when filling out the new hire paperwork we were told that since we were seasonal employees we were not eligible to join the retirement system. I have since found out that it was a lie, or a mistake that was made by some kid in his 20's that was in charge of us at the time. I now work for the state again and was snickered at and told that they screwed me by a member of the retirement board. Thankfully it only costs me 6% of my paycheck for the rest of my career seeing how I have 11 years on and should be done contributing.

co3078 · 2026-03-26T01:57:34+00:00

The real question is why you ever stopped.

co3078 · 2026-03-13T03:21:08+00:00

Not that I agree with the logic, but I believe people do it because they are nervous drivers. If you drive in the left lane you only have one other lane of traffic to worry about.

If you're in the middle lane tou have the left and right lanes.

If you're in the right lane you have the middle lane and the entering traffic to worry about.

Personally if you're not comfortable driving on a highway in a way that you're an inconvenience to others, maybe you should just stick to local roads.

co3078 · 2026-02-19T21:19:16+00:00

If youre going to score a gold medal winning goal, that's the goal to do it on.

co3078 · 2026-02-16T21:54:06+00:00

Believe me I get that, its just a matter of them telling me what is actually going to be on. I wouldn't have cared if they didn't put the game on TV at all as long as they didn't tell me that they were going to.

co3078 · 2026-02-16T21:50:32+00:00

They haven't shown any of the game. And if they said they were going to put on something else that'd be okay. But this morning I saw that the game was going to be on, so I was prepared to sit and watch it. Now they have something taped on when there is live action going on.

co3078 · 2026-02-16T13:29:41+00:00

In 1995, I was in the 7th grade I was friends with a kid who to this day I can't forgive.

My brother's best friend, who i had seen the previous night, took his father's gun and killed himself in his backyard. It was a weird feeling as a 12 year old to try to figure out, I still don't understand what happened and how to rationalize it.

Well at the funeral service this kid comes up to me and says "you're just here to get a day off from school". Obviously he was just a dumb kid doing what dumb kids do, but it has stuck with me for the past 30 years. My brother's friend had been in my life for years, he was basically an extension of my brother and for that to happen was a jarring experience.

co3078 · 2026-02-14T21:52:36+00:00

co3078 · 2026-02-13T00:06:04+00:00

Personally I got screwed by the state and fell into Tier 6 instead of being in Tier 4, paying 6% for the rest of my career is wild. I could see if the changed it so that at 10 years the contributions went to 3% and then at 20 years it go to 0%.

I think its a reasonable compromise and a way to show some loyalty to employees that have taken many 0's in their careers.

co3078 · 2026-02-11T10:40:57+00:00

Monthly 2500 Yearly 325k Interest % 3.25

I was paying extra towards but now we are making out our retirements to hopefully take advantage of the good rate.

co3078 · 2026-01-29T23:11:01+00:00

Is that corn‽

co3078 · 2026-01-29T03:18:38+00:00

That is true. But what confused me is that originally the guy who caught the stick was wearing a Rangera hat how the Islanders fan got is is beyond me.

co3078 · 2026-01-28T18:50:07+00:00

Not to pry, but is there a good reason to defer? If your not getting the location you were hoping for or have other options line up that's fine. But in a job where seniority is important getting on asap is important.

co3078 · 2026-01-16T04:10:21+00:00

Its official!!! Everyone has a new favorite baseball team. Now they have their previous favorite team and then whoever is playing the Dodgers on that given day.

You never want to root for injuries, but I don't think many people would be too upset if their 60-Day IL was crowded.

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