If you are targeted in a reduction-in-force (RIF), there is a way of staying on your agency’s payroll until you can retire, writes benefits expert Reg Jones. “You can chose to use annual leave and stay on the agency’s rolls after the date you would have been separated in order to establish initial eligibility for immediate retirement,” he writes. You’ll find his column at https://www.fedweek.com/content/ev/index.php