Your location preferences will be taken into consideration during the evaluation of your application. If we offer you employment, it will generally be for one of the locations you have listed. In any event, you will know your location assignment well before you are scheduled to begin working. As a Field Examiner you will visit the homes, offices, and workplaces of the persons involved in your cases. Consequently, you will be called upon frequently to travel within the regional boundaries of the office to which you are assigned, and sometimes your cases or special assignments may take you into other Regions.
Some offices cover only a few counties, while others have jurisdiction over several States.
Of course, travel and subsistence expenses are paid by the Government. This increases to 20 working days per year, the equivalent of a 4-week paid vacation after the third year of Government service, and increases again to 26 working days for those with 15 or more years. Holidays Employees are granted 10 paid holidays each year. The 13 days of sick leave that you earn each year accumulate without limit when not used and protect you from loss of salary due to illness. Annual leave may also be used for illness.