Benefits & Assistance Programs

Benefits & Assistance Programs

Prepare for the Unexpected

The Employment Go Bag is a checklist and resource to help employees stay prepared for the unexpected. It is strongly recommended that employees work now to prepare a file with the following documents that pertain solely to them and email it all to a personal email account.

Documents to gather:

Your complete eOPF record.
A copy of your current position description.
Most recent Earnings & Leave (E&L) statement as well as the year-end E&L statement for the last five years.
Most current Leave Summary from your Time & Attendance system.
W-2 statements from the last five years.
Performance appraisal from the last five years.
Latest medical clearances for self and family.
Award certificates and citations.
Contact information (email address and phone number) for your agency's HR team.
Downloaded list of professional contacts from MS Outlook.
Remove personal documents from your work computer, especially those that you may need to access later and/or contain personal information and data.
Make sure you can access sites protected by login.gov credentials without your PIV/CAC card by adding your personal email and phone numbers to your profile.
Make sure important accounts and profiles (e.g., Thrift Savings Plan, medical insurance etc.) are linked to your personal email account and phone numbers.
You may want to consider putting a freeze on your credit to prevent your PII from being used to open accounts in your name.