Quick ReadA 30-year FERS employee earning $90,000 retires on just $27,000 annually, which represents 30% of pre-retirement ...

Federal wildland firefighters pouring everything into a brutal fire season assume every grueling overtime hour builds a ...

Predictability is one of the many benefits of having federal employment. You have a FERS or CSRS pension, Social Security ...

An Iowa public safety officer retired one month before a law took effect, and that single calendar page may quietly cost him ...

Here are some crucial tips for every stage of your federal career: Understand the parts of the Federal Employees Retirement ...

Calculating when you can coast on what you have already saved comes with its own pitfalls.

For salaried employees covered under the Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS), retirement income is not simply linked to their last drawn salary. The pension depends primarily on two factors: pensionable ...

Retiring from federal service is a major milestone, of course, but it does not end the need to understand how federal benefits work. In the years after retirement, life events and new opportunities ...

In some columns I wrote recently about the repeal of laws that affect people who spent a large portion of their careers working at jobs that were not covered by Social Security, it became very clear ...

The Centre has ruled out any move to restore the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) for employees covered under the National Pension System (NPS), saying the government had moved away from OPS because of its ...