Posted on Aug 22, 2016
Being in the national guard, what is the point requirement for retirement? I'm sitting at about 1800pts. 11years in.
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You will receive a statement every year indicating how many good years you have toward retirement. You can retire anytime after you have 20 good years. Just check with you unit how long in advance they want you to let them know. Otherwise, MSG Colby is right the points only factor how much money you will get each month. If you go on DFAS you can put in your points and it will calculate how much money your will get each month at the age of 60.
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For a reserve retirement it is 20 "good" years. Each day of active duty (this includes at, adds etc)counts as 1, each drill (sat and Sun) weekend counts as 4 points. When you hit 50 points in a year you will be counted as a good year towards the mandatory 20 years required to claim a reserve requirement.
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Every Active Duty day equals 1 point. So a normal year is 365 with 5 leap years in 20 years of service. So 365 x 20 = 7300 + 5 = 7305 for 20 years of active service.
Guard and reserves are point per drill which is 2 drill points per day so a weekend drill is 4 with Annual Training of 14 days get 14 points. And believe that your get 15 for being in guard/reserves equaling 77 possible points but only needing 60 for good year. Has been 9 years since I was in Air Guard so point amounts maybe off but 60 is a good year unless it changed since 07.
A good year only applies to Guard and Reserves as you can miss drills and not have enough points to meet good year status. On active duty, title 10, you get your points as you can't miss a day on active status.
In guard and reserves you get point summaries yearly and those point are worth X amount toward your retirement pay. If you are in Drill status but manage to get 7305 points you would get an active retirement, has happened. But if it took 25 years to get 7305 points that is only a 20 year retirement.
Not sure if Army Guard has different point system or not.
Guard and reserves are point per drill which is 2 drill points per day so a weekend drill is 4 with Annual Training of 14 days get 14 points. And believe that your get 15 for being in guard/reserves equaling 77 possible points but only needing 60 for good year. Has been 9 years since I was in Air Guard so point amounts maybe off but 60 is a good year unless it changed since 07.
A good year only applies to Guard and Reserves as you can miss drills and not have enough points to meet good year status. On active duty, title 10, you get your points as you can't miss a day on active status.
In guard and reserves you get point summaries yearly and those point are worth X amount toward your retirement pay. If you are in Drill status but manage to get 7305 points you would get an active retirement, has happened. But if it took 25 years to get 7305 points that is only a 20 year retirement.
Not sure if Army Guard has different point system or not.
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Ever day spent on Title 10 after 2008(I believe) comes off the age of 60 as to when you can collect retirement pay. So according to my retirement paper work, I'll start collecting when I'm 58 1/2.
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The minimum points required to retire is 1000. That assumes all you have done is your Basic, AIT, and standard DIT and AT schedule for 20 years. The points aren't as important as the TIME requirement though. That is 20 years of good service. How many points you have at that time will determine your retirement pay percentage.
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SSG (Join to see), you must have 20 years of creditable service, with a minimum of 50 points per year being declared a creditable year. You must receive your "20 year letter" before you are good to go.
I would take time now to insure that each year that you thus have far is correct with respect to point total. Earnings statements and course completion certificates, etc., may be lost over time. Make sure the years you have now are correct and then conduct an audit of each year thereafter to make sure that year is correct. That way, when it's time to receive your twenty year letter, or hang up your cleats for good, you won't be scrambling and trying to get your points corrected.
If you've already done so, all the better.
I would take time now to insure that each year that you thus have far is correct with respect to point total. Earnings statements and course completion certificates, etc., may be lost over time. Make sure the years you have now are correct and then conduct an audit of each year thereafter to make sure that year is correct. That way, when it's time to receive your twenty year letter, or hang up your cleats for good, you won't be scrambling and trying to get your points corrected.
If you've already done so, all the better.
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