The Federal Reserve offers a generous retirement plan to its employees. But unlike state and local governments, which understate their pension liabilities and take excessive investment risk in ...

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has released its version of a key spending bill that would preserve the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) special retirement ...

The reconciliation bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives has numerous adjustments that would impact retirement and workplace benefits for federal workers, whether they’re newly hired or ...

For every quarter percent Fed rate hike, the income from an annuity might increase by 1.5%. The reason for this multiplier impact is fairly complex and varies by annuity carrier.

President Trump has again proposed reducing the value of federal retirement benefits while requiring most federal employees to pay more toward those benefits. In some cases, the benefits would be ...

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.

The Federal Reserve announced a half-point hike in the federal funds rate on Wednesday, in an effort to combat inflation. Though it may not seem like much, it was the largest increase since 2000.

In 2012, Congress and President Obama took action to address that situation, approving a “phased-retirement” program that allows federal employees to work part-time after the age of retirement ...

Those seeking retirement income didn’t want to lock in the low rates of a few years ago. But interest rates on treasury bonds have climbed since July 2016, and that’s helped annuity buyers.

The United States government's Deferred Resignation Program 2.0 (DRP 2.0), is a voluntary program that lets federal employees resign in advance but still get paid and keep benefits until September ...

The Fed must appear as if it is all knowing and all seeing. Gaslighting helps accomplish that goal. Then, we have the mother of all inflation disconnects, which is what’s going on in the housing ...