If you are covered under the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) and your active military service was performed after January 1, 1957, this service is creditable for retirement only if you pay a deposit.
One of the dozens of New Deal programs created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to fight the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was primarily designed to put thousands of unemployed young men to work on useful public projects.residential. FDR creates Civilian Conservation Corps. On this day in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), an innovative federally funded organization that put thousands of Americans to work during the Great Depression on projects with environmental benefits.
(35-GE-1E-2). They came from all over Americaâfrom the big cities, from the small towns, from the farmsâtens of thousands of young men, to serve in the vanguard of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal in the spring of 1933. They were the young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps.is interest in the CCC began with the stories his father told him of his time in a CCC camp at Wolf Rock, Pennsylvania, in 1933â1934. Speakman is the author of At Work in Penn's Woods: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania, which has been recently published by Penn State University Press.