Air traffic controllers are under the same early retirement program as firefighters and federal law enforcement officials
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Unfortunately no,
"If you are an eligible retired public safety officer (law enforcement officer, firefighter, chaplain, or member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew), you can elect to exclude from income distributions made from an eligible retirement plan that are used to pay the premiums for accident or health insurance or long-term care insurance."
Source: page 18, https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p721.pdf
Page 1 of this same document acknowledges that you (air traffic controllers) do have same retirement plan as public safety officers and are exempt from penalties for drawing at the earlier age, however, the rest of this provision did not the carryover.
Unfortunately no,
"If you are an eligible retired public safety officer (law enforcement officer, firefighter, chaplain, or member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew), you can elect to exclude from income distributions made from an eligible retirement plan that are used to pay the premiums for accident or health insurance or long-term care insurance."
Source: page 18, https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p721.pdf
Page 1 of this same document acknowledges that you (air traffic controllers) do have same retirement plan as public safety officers and are exempt from penalties for drawing at the earlier age, however, the rest of this provision did not the carryover.
OMNIBUS CRIME
CONTROL AND SAFE STREETS ACT OF 1968 1 [Public Law
90–351; 82 Stat. 197]
42 U.S.C. § 3796b Sec. 1204 Definitions
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