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Larry Romine says," Currently I am counseling 20+ rails, per week, on retirement, disability and insurance issues.  Usually I send out an email about what rails can do to get all the benefits they are entitled to.  This email is similar, but I will start with the mistakes made by John and Marsha, on their journey to disability.

John had a condition that was gradually getting worse.  He knew at some point and time, he would be forced to stop working.  It was just a matter of how long his disease would allow him to work.  

John calls and states that this is it.  He is done.  His last day at work will be 8-4.  His body was no longer up to working at the railroad.  I congratulated him and told him to NOT sign anything, since he is going for a disability, NOT retirement.  I told him once he…

My total number of banked days now shows correctly, in early January my total was short a few days, but I put in a TRM and it got corrected. Check your banked days in CMTS - timeoff - timekeeping - tkp stats - PL stats Your Lifetime Lifetime Banked Days are shown at the bottom.

Larry Romine said," I occasionally get phone calls that result in large changes in rails lives. This is a recap of one of my benefit consults.

Arthur was having issues with PTSD while driving. He was getting very close to being fired for absenteeism. Arthur had just two questions for me.

When could he start drawing his RRB Retirement?

I asked his age and years of service. He had just turned 60 and had 22 years of service.

I told Arthur that he would have to wait until he was 62 before he could get any RRB Retirement benefits.

Arthur asked if he could just resign and get his money when he turned 62? I answered yes.