I worked for GE Lighting 13 years if I work 22 with the RailRoad I would be 60 what would happen to the 13 yrs

Answer 1

If you have a company or union pension you may keep it.
If you had social security, it will blended in with tier one RR retirement, if you had both pensions vested before 1973 you can double dip, everyone else loses the SSA.
Basically you lose it.
Call the RR retirement board, you can find the in the Yellow Pges under federal govt listings
They can give you the whole stroy.

Answer 2

Save your dime.

Rango is right. After taking your RRT pension, you are allowed to have outside earnings up to $700 per month IF you don't have an employer or are incorporated to an extent to where you would have to pay into SSA.

If you pay 1 cent, your RRT benefits cease and you are rolled the other way, into SSA.

The gentleman above is right as well. The 13 years may be a fond memory.

On the other hand, you may be working on GE locomotives, so your connection with GE would still be intact. Like I said in an answer to your previous question concerning a potential 22 year career with a railroad before retirement, I wouldn't advise anyone to pass up an opportunity to get on with a major company where there are collective bargaining agreements and seniority lists in play, railroad or otherwise.

Answer 3

When you retire you would get benefits from both social security and railroad retirement.

Answer 4

Unless you take a nasty fall, develop Alzheimer's, or undergo electroshock therapy you'll probably always remember them.

Answer 5

you need to explain more if social security it just added on