Take a buyout or risk a later layoff? As more federal employees find their jobs in the crosshairs, financial advisors say ...

President Donald Trump has seized the authority to lay off federal workers and reorganize the federal government in a way ...

FERS (Federal Employees Retirement System) Pension: Working Until Age 62 I once had a client who was a federal employee and was looking to retire at age 61. She said, “Joe, I am retiring this ...

The Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) ... The program went into effect in 1987 for all federal employees hired by the government after Dec. 31, 1983, ...

The Federal Employees Retirement System, or FERS, is the retirement plan for all civilian employees in the U.S. federal government. With FERS, employees receive retirement benefits from three ...

For federal employees who were hired before 1984, it was easy, they were under the single benefit, Civil Service Retirement System. The retirement age was 55.

One employee, slated to retire at the end of April, emailed me: Could a sudden layoff without cause — or “reduction in force” (RIF) in government jargon — derail his hard-earned retirement ...

A final proposal would reduce the interest rate paid in the Government Securities G Fund of the Thrift Savings Plan, the 401(k)-style retirement savings program for federal employees.

Last Friday’s post comparing federal employee retirement benefits to those in ... One emailer told me I was making an ass of myself for assuming a full-career employee in the federal government.

In a recent 2017 GBC survey of federal employees, a majority of respondents (59%) said the desire for leisure and new interests factored into their decision to retire. Friends and family were ...

The partial government shutdown has caused uncertainty for some workers who were ready to retire. The retirement plans for federal employees who had already submitted their paperwork and had it ...