A new insert in newborns' Social Security card mailings explains how parents can claim a Trump Account and the $1,000 federal contribution.

A federal retiree received an overpayment of nearly $4,000 in interim Federal Employees’ Retirement System (FERS) annuity benefits, and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) tried to take it back.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has issued a final regulation in the Federal Register that will directly impact approximately 33,300 GS employees. These regulations become effective on ...

Have you ever been to a retirement seminar put on by your agency or employee union or group? Did it include a “financial advisor” who spoke for a short period of time? Retirement seminars for federal ...

What is VERA and How Can It Benefit Federal Employees? For federal employees approaching retirement, the Voluntary Early Retirement Authority (VERA) program presents a compelling option. VERA provides ...

This is one of the longest-running questions in the minds of seniors, and one that has gotten more intense as the predictions about the program’s long-term stability have eroded over time. At this ...

Late last week, the House of Representatives passed a massive spending bill for fiscal year 2025. The legislation, now known as the Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1), now heads to the Senate for ...

For years, getting a 4 or a 5 on your performance rating was pretty normal in the federal government. Starting with the rating year that just ended, it won’t be. On September 21, 2026, OPM Director ...

Details continue to emerge about the proposed cuts to federal employees’ retirement benefits under a budget proposal passed by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The Congressional ...

The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) has set up a “current known issues” page to detail some of the more frequent problems that plan participants have encountered since the transition to the mutual fund ...

The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) announced recently that it was rescinding an advisory opinion issued last year regarding the Hatch Act. The opinions that are being rescinded were issued on May 20, ...

The government’s share of Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) premiums is not a fixed percentage. In 2027, the government will pay exactly 75% of the total premium in about half of FEHB plan ...