With so many currently heading for the exit, it’s a good time for federal employees to improve their understanding of the retirement process.

The proposal mirrors a House plan that would undermine civil service protections and give a president like Trump more power to fire whomever he wants.

The Senate draft of the new tax bill cut retirement provisions in the House bill that would have reduced current federal workers’ retirement benefits, but added a provision that would reduce benefits ...

The largest proposal would increase revenues by $30.7 billion by requiring long-serving federal workers to increase their contributions into the Federal Employees Retirement System, or FERS, to 4. ...

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 ...

Moreover, the package would eliminate supplemental retirement benefits for those who retire before age 62 and are unable to yet collect Social Security, and give new federal employees the option ...

As part of Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill," the House voted to end a retirement supplement aimed at helping federal employees who retire before they're 62.

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 ...

Federal employees are increasingly applying for OPM disability retirement due to reduced telework options, low morale, and changing government policies. Get Newsletter Home ...

A proposal to change retirement benefits for federal employees was not included in the federal budget plan that narrowly passed the U.S. House this morning. U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, had ...