Q. I have a friend who resigned from civil service in 2004 (after 20+ years). He then took all his TSP fund, closed the account and rolled it over into an IRA. He will be 60 in 2014 and he heard that he might be able to collect a retirement pension from the federal government (GS-5) in 2016 when he is 62. Is he eligible for pension and is the retirement contributions and TSP the same? Since he took his TSP funding, will that make him ineligible to collect a pension? What is the retirement contribution?