The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that the 2027 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is 3.6% for Social Security beneficiaries and Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) retirees. Federal ...

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) cut its retirement backlog by another 6,613 applications in September, bringing the pending inventory to 8,814, the first time it has fallen below 10,000 in at ...

A bigger 2027 COLA can make more Social Security taxable. See what three federal retirees could owe in federal income taxes, from $0 to $337 more.

If your 2027 Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) premium changed by a very different percentage than your plan’s total premium, you are not misreading the rates. The government pays part of the ...

The average increase in the enrollee share of Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program premiums for 2027 is 10.9%, according to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). It is the third double ...

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) puts the average increase in the enrollee share of Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program premiums at 10.9% for 2027. That average hides a smaller ...

Federal retirees often build their Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) allocation with a specific plan in mind: keep a portion in the G Fund as a safety net, so that if the stock market drops during retirement, ...

If you are enrolled in Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) or Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB), your medical claims, along with those of your spouse and any covered dependents, are among the ...

Yesterday, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in more than three years, and stocks turned lower following the decision — leaving the TSP’s C and S Funds down roughly a third ...

With OPM’s retirement backlog still running in the thousands, federal employees can’t control how fast the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) works through its queue. What they can control is ...

President Trump’s August 26 letter freezing most federal civilian pay for 2027 isn’t necessarily the final word — Congress can still enact a different pay adjustment. The question now is whether ...