Federal employee or not, figure out how much life insurance you need to carry. One rule of thumb is to get enough insurance to cover 10 times your annual gross salary.

Quick, how much life insurance do you have? If you’re organized, you can determine the amount of your Federal Employees Group Life Insurance coverage by looking in the three-ring binder or ...

Answer: Almost all federal employees are eligible for the Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) program.It offers “basic” coverage equal to about an employee’s salary, plus three ...

Here are some tips from experts on what to do if you are losing your federal benefits and pitfalls to avoid if you’re ...

Federal Employee Group Life Insurance ; This federal benefit ends after 31 days unless converted to a private policy at a higher rate. The key word here is “unless.” ...

The NFC calculates and tracks employee withholdings and employer contributions for federal health, life insurance and retirement benefits at nine departments, covering more than 640,000 people.

When federal long-term care insurance is worth it. The most important thing to note about federal long-term care insurance is that not everyone is eligible for it. In fact, federal long-term care ...

As of late March, at least 120,000 federal workers have been laid off as part of the Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to shrink government spending. The cuts affect employees at more than two ...

As the likelihood of life without a paycheck sets in for 800,000 federal employees and others affected by the ongoing government shutdown, questions are arising about health insurance and other ...

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