Interesting item about Gallaudet Employees

I received a date for my interview at Gallaudet today and when I was reading their employee benefits information I thought it was very interesting that they talked about FERS and FELIG (or whatever the federal employee life insurance plan is). So I just researched it, because I was *cross fingers* hoping that they might somehow consider Gally employees to be Federal employees. No such luck. Though, there are definite advantages to them using the same benefits plans! :) Oh, and Gally employees get Dental. :)

"Although Gallaudet University employees are not Federal employees, an Act of Congress in 1949 extended retirement benefits under the Civil Service Retirement System to regular status employees of the University. Contributions from employees’ pay, matching contributions from the University, and direct appropriations from Congress are used for the purpose of paying annuities, refunds, and death benefits to persons entitled to them.

"In 1984, a public law changed the retirement system for Federal employees, including employees of Gallaudet. This new law and a subsequent law replaced the Civil Service Retirement System with the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and required all new employees hired after December 31, 1983 to be covered by Social Security. Employees covered under CSRS were given the option to remain with this system or to transfer to FERS."