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Federal retirement has been a hot topic on Capitol Hill lately, with proposed changes sparking plenty of questions. Here’s a ...
With so many currently heading for the exit, it’s a good time for federal employees to improve their understanding of the retirement process.
A provision to move to a “high-5” annuity calculation was struck from the House-passed reconciliation bill. But other ...
Republicans want to force new federal workers to choose between losing job protections and paying for them. One union ...
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 ...
In an internal memo to staff on Friday, the central bank’s chair, Jerome H. Powell, said it would offer a voluntary deferred ...
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced last week that it will roll out a new “paperless” retirement application ...
The Department of Government Efficiency is racing to replace the federal government's outdated paper-based retirement system ...
The system handles retirement applications and manages benefits for former federal employees and their families ... Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) requirements for securing ...
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.