Courses for Federal Personnelists

GRB provides a wide range of courses for personnelists. Each course provides classroom instruction by experts in the field of Federal employee benefits. All course materials are included in the cost of the training course.

Comprehensive Federal Employee Benefits Training
This 5-day course is designed for personnelists new to the employee benefits field and provides participants with information on how to counsel employees, separating employees and potential retirees concerning all employee benefits such as CSRS and FERS benefits, FEHB, FEGLI, Social Security, Medicare, Long Term Care Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts and TSP.

Advanced Employee Benefits Training
This 3-day course builds on our Comprehensive Federal Employee Benefits Training course focusing on more complex situations such as special retirement coverage determinations, issues unique to military retirees and their spouses, difficult annuity computations (such as part-time and the annuity supplement) and court orders.

Federal Benefits for Staffing and HR Specialists New!
This 3-day course is designed to provide information on Coverage Determination and Federal benefit programs and explains in simple practical terms what Staffing and Human Resource Specialists should know in order to inform and accurately process new and current employee actions.

Computation of Retirement Benefits for Part-Time Employees
This 1-day course provides participants with detailed information on CSRS and FERS part-time service computations and the opportunity to learn how to manually compute retirement, disability, and death benefits for part-time employees.

Reemployed Annuitant Determinations
This 1-day course provides participants with detailed information on the benefits reemployed annuitants are entitled to under CSRS, FERS, TSP, FEHB, and FEGLI.

FERS Annuity Supplement
This 1-day course provides participants with information they need to counsel FERS employees and survivors about the annuity supplement portion of their retirement benefits and provide them with estimates of those monthly benefits.

Death Benefits
This 1-day course provides participants with detailed information on the survivor benefits payable to family members in the event of an employee's or retiree's death.

Social Security Course for Personnelists
This 1-day course is designed to provide personnelists with a sound understanding of Social Security benefits including information they need to counsel employees and survivors and detailed information on how Social Security benefits are calculated.

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