Understanding Social Security for Feds: learn about the Special Retirement Supplement for some feds who retire before age 62. Eligible FERS works that retire prior to reaching age 62 have an extra benefit that is designed to supplement social security ... Read More

Thinking about retiring from federal service next year? Here are the dates that are optimal for federal employees in 2024. The general consensus among federal employees that the best day of the year to retire is the very last one ... Read More

The 3.2% Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) will apply to CSRS and Social Security. FERS annuitants will see a 2.2% adjustment. A little higher than the 3.0% predicted at the end of August, the Social Security Administration recently announced next year’s COLA ... Read More

Will the shutdown showdown have any impact on next year’s pay raise? Also, OPM recent announcement about locality adjustments. For a while there, next year’s annual pay raise for federal employees appeared pretty set at 5.2% – that was the ... Read More

If you’re retired and collecting a FERS pension and decide to return to federal service, here are the two situations in which your FERS annuity will stop. To be eligible for a disability retirement under FERS, you must have at ... Read More

Furloughs, federal benefits, and an update on the annual pay raise for feds. At the time of this writing, the impending government shutdown isn’t official but the likelihood is increasing by the second. The chance of a stop-gap going through ... Read More

Dan and Katelyn review the 2024 Federal Pay Raise as Biden recently approved the 5.2% figure. Also- the latest outlook for next year’s COLA. The Fed15 Podcast (Ep. 14): 2024 Federal Pay Raise Update This week’s podcast has some breaking ... Read More

Dan and Katelyn discuss Track and Field, the FERS and CSRS alternative annuity payment, and pay compression. The Fed15 Podcast (Ep. 13): Pay Compression and Locality First, don’t miss Dan geek out over the Track and Field world championships. Then, ... Read More

Biden’s alternative pay plan indicates 5.2% average pay raise for federal employees in 2024. The odds of the annual pay raise for the federal workforce being 5.2% have been high since March, when the current presidential administration released its suggested ... Read More

This episode is about the rules, application process, and calculations involved with a disability retirement for federal employees under both FERS and CSRS. COMPLIMENTARY FERS WEBINAR FedLife Podcast (ep. 101): Disability Retirement from the US Federal Government We’re excited about ... Read More