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are asking your agency to send us your final separation
records so we can establish your final annuity rate.
We cannot start your annuity payments until we receive
confirmation that you have applied for Social Security
disability benefits. If you have not already done so,
you must now apply for them. Please send us a copy of
the receipt (or notice of allowance or disallowance)
which you receive from the Social Security Administra-
tion after you file the application.
If the Social Security Administration awards you
monthly benefits, you must also notify OPM of the
amount of the monthly Social Security benefit and
effective date of payment immediately upon becoming
eligible * * *.
During petitioner’s employment with the Postal Service, he
made contributions to a retirement account (petitioner’s TSP
retirement account) that he maintained with the Federal Thrift
Savings Plan.3 At a time or times not disclosed by the record,
petitioner borrowed money from petitioner’s TSP retirement
account. When petitioner retired from the Postal Service in
2002, he had the following two loans from that account outstand-
ing (collectively, petitioner’s loans): Loan number 0130267-E in
the amount of $10,477.89 (petitioner’s $10,477.89 loan) and loan
number 9800963-R in the amount of $15,462.60 (petitioner’s
$15,462.60 loan).4
3The record does not disclose the terms of the Federal
Thrift Savings Plan in which petitioner participated while he was
an employee of the Postal Service.
4The record does not disclose the respective terms of peti-
tioner’s loans.
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