The Senate parliamentarian previously ruled that most of the proposals aimed at cutting federal employees’ retirement ...

View the full graphic. BREAKING POINTS. ... Step 1 begins when a federal employee submits retirement paperwork to his or her own agency. That happens at least 100,000 times a year.

The Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) is a retirement plan that covers all employees in the executive, judicial, and ...

FERS provides a three-part retirement plan for U.S. civilian federal employees. Retirees receive Social Security, Basic Benefit Plan pensions, and Thrift Savings like a 401(k). Full retirement is ...

Federal workers have a constellation of retirement benefits, and assessing them can get complicated fast. Here are five high-stakes decisions to focus on.

The reconciliation bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives has numerous adjustments that would impact retirement and workplace benefits for federal workers, whether they’re newly hired or ...

In January 2025, OPM received over new 16,000 retirement claims and processed 6,700. January usually sees an influx of retirement applications; the month before, OPM received 5,020 and processed ...

The most significant measure approved by the committee would raise the Federal Employees Retirement System contribution rate for many current civilian and postal employees to 4.4% of their salary.