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The FERS basic retirement benefit often includes a “supplement” to take the place of a Social Security retirement benefit when an employee retires with an unreduced, immediate benefit, but is younger ...

There used to be a time in the federal government when employees were covered under the Civil Service Retirement System. Show up to work for several decades and be rewarded with a pension of up to 80% ...

Congress has proposed significant changes to federal employee retirement benefits in the latest reconciliation bill. The bill aims to cut $2 trillion in federal spending over the next decade, with $50 ...

Most feds are pleasantly surprised when they calculate their (gross) FERS pension for the first time. But most are then shocked at all the things that will need to come out of their pension before ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...