COLA is 2.8%, but FERS retirees only get 2.0% for their annuities. The "diet" COLA fails to match the 12%+ jump in health ...

The government shutdown has raised lots of questions about the retirement process, and retirement benefits, for federal employees while agencies remain closed. Here are some of the most pressing ...

The speaker emerita, a Democratic member of Congress since 1987, was the first woman to hold the role of speaker of the House ...

The Office of Personnel Management received 70,351 retirement applications by the end of June—nearly a 40% increase over the same period in 2024, when 50,305 applications were filed. The uptick is not ...

A new way to access 1099-Rs and more detailed public-facing processing times are the federal human capital arm’s latest ...

After many federal employees missed paychecks, AFGE called for a “clean” continuing resolution. The financial issues are compounded by other recent changes too.

"It's a brand new system and there's not enough people in place to help answer those questions," said Thiago Glieger.

I am a retired federal employee writing to raise public awareness about the Equal COLA Act, H.R. 491/ S. 624, which would provide more equitable annual cost-of-living-adjustments (COLAs) for Social ...

The U.S. government shut down on Wednesday after Congress failed to approve funding for federal agencies. Here's how that could affect Social Security recipients.