The new electronic retirement system promises a faster, more accurate process, but some users are still adjusting to the ...

"In the area of reducing benefits, Social Security has always been a system that's been kind of tilted towards the lower wage ...

Currently, federal workers contribute to the retirement system based on their hiring date: 0.8% if hired before 2013, 3.1% if hired in 2013, and 4.4% for most hired since 2014.

In all, 70,351 employees retired in the first six months of 2025 as compared to 56,756 employees who left federal service ...

The Civilian Human Resources Agency (CHRA) encourages Army civilian employees to begin retirement planning early to ensure a ...

Federal Employee Retirement System DUNEDIN, USA, September 13, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) is a retirement system that ...

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.

Federal employees at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia are facing significant cuts to their retirement benefits under a House Republican plan. The budget reconciliation bill would eliminate the ...

If they want to retain workplace protections, however, the alternative would be to pay 5 percentage points more (for a total of 9.4%) into the Federal Employees Retirement System, even if they won ...

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.