A sweeping law went into effect January 5, 2025, and by early July, all updates were complete—resulting in higher monthly ...

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

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.

The Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) is a system that provided retirement, disability, and survivor benefits for most U.S. civilian service employees working for the federal government.

The exception is Jimmy Carter. Carter served from 1977 to 1981 and is covered by the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) instead of Social Security.