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.

For those feds covered by the Civil Service Retirement System and Social Security, calculating retirement benefits can get complicated. Tammy Flanagan August 27, 2020 ...

Determining whether a Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) retiree can collect spousal Social Security benefits isn't always easy. Typically, because those under CSRS do not pay into Social ...

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

More than 165 million U.S. businesses and households entrust the U.S. Postal Service to seamlessly deliver mail and packages – be it amidst a pandemic or a severe winter storm. The men and women ...

These are immediate retirement, early retirement or deferred retirement. Each of these has different requirements based on when you joined the FERS system, your number of years of service, your ...

Civil service employees must serve at least five years under the FERS system to be eligible for a FERS Delayed Retirement pension (those years must be served in the civil service in order to be ...

Workers hired after 1984 are part of the Federal Employment Retirement System (FERS). Employees in the FERS system are eligible for both a Thrift Savings plan as well as Social Security benefits.

Key Takeaways. Until 1984, presidents and federal workers were covered by the Civil Service Retirement System instead of Social Security. Today, presidents pay into Social Security and are ...