You may have noticed a bump in your monthly benefit. Here’s why your payment increased this year—and what to expect in the months ahead.

The changes come after the Senate parliamentarian said several proposals from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee violated the Byrd Rule.

Access ARM Pensions has urged civil servants to embrace small but consistent voluntary contributions to their Retirement ...

The House of Representatives is taking concrete steps to reform Nigeria’s public service by addressing issues such as ...

Under language released by a Senate panel Thursday night, new federal workers who decline to serve as at-will employees will ...

The Pendleton Act established a competitive, merit-based hiring system and laid the foundation for the modern professional civil service that serves the nation — not the party in power.

A GOP proposal could push federal workers to retire early to avoid pension cuts, but as the rules keep changing, planning is harder.

The Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) is a retirement plan for U.S. federal civilian employees. FERS is a defined-benefit plan that replaced the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS).

Members of Congress, like other federal employees, can be covered with a retirement plan of their choice under the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees' Retirement System ...

federal employees covered by the Civil Service Retirement System; and people whose work had been covered by a foreign social security system. Starting the week of Feb. 24, SSA is beginning to pay ...

It All Goes Wrong Shortly before the Civil Service Commission arrived at Boyers, the US federal retirement apparatus was a mess.

Why? Because federal employees were already covered by the civil service retirement system that had been around since 1920.