Q. My spouse is a postal worker, age 48, who will have eight years of service and plans to leave the workforce in February 2015. She plans to defer retirement until age 62. I am a FERS participant who will have 36 years when I reach my MRA of 56 in September 2019. We both have TSP accounts. When my spouse leaves the workforce next year, will I be able to transfer her TSP into mine so that they are combined into one account? Will they need to be left separate for a number of years or always? What are our options?
A. Your TSP accounts must remain separate as long as you are both alive.
