EPA confirms retirement option for Trump’s resignation plan

By Kevin Bogardus | 02/03/2025 04:19 PM EST

Some employees will be able to retire early after the agency lowered limits for age and length of service.

EPA headquarters.

EPA headquarters. Francis Chung/E&E News

EPA will offer early retirement to those staffers who are eligible and choose to join President Donald Trump’s mass resignation scheme.

The agency said in an internal email obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News that it had received Voluntary Early Retirement Authority, or VERA, from the Office of Personnel Management. That will allow some EPA employees to retire early after lowering limits for age and length of service.

“These employees are only approved to receive VERA if they accept the deferred resignation offer by February 6, 2025,” said the email, which was sent Monday and signed by the Office of the Administrator.

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Those who are 50 years old with at least 20 years of service or at any age with at least 25 service years can retire under the program.

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