Federal retirement benefits were virtually nonexistent before the 20th century. Federal employees relied on personal savings or limited agency-specific pensions, often tied ...

Since your FERS annuity (pension), Social Security, and Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) provide three streams of retirement income, you may be tempted ...

OPM continues to deal with a backlog of federal retirement applications, as July saw 8,295 employees file for retirement. While this number ...

In July 2025, the TSP reported mixed performance across its funds, with 14 of 16 funds posting gains, though most grew by ...

A growing number of federal employees are retiring with more than $1 million in their Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) accounts, a milestone ...

Now that the FERS Retiree Annuity Supplement has survived proposed federal benefit cuts, this may lead to a big decision for some ...

On July 8, 2025, the Supreme Court lifted an injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, allowing the Trump administration to ...

With President Trump’s proposal to eliminate 107,000 federal positions in non-defense agencies starting in 2026, federal workers may face job insecurity, potentially ...

The perfect retirement date is a widely discussed and dissected topic. There have been multiple articles dedicated to several strategies you can ...

Proposed changes to federal benefits, such as the elimination of the retiree annuity supplement and the transition to a “high-5” annuity calculation, ...