Departments and agencies vary in the latitude they give their supervisors and managers to vary the step they offer to a prospective employee.
A reader asks if their military service counts toward their retirement eligibility.
A reader asks when he can shift back to self-only coverage once his spouse moves to Medicare.
There have been ongoing attempts in Congress and by financial advocates to repeal the WEP.
A reader who wants to apply for deferred retirement wonders if their military buyback counts toward their service time.
Reg the retirement expert offers tips on requesting a retirement refund from OPM.
A reader who may return to federal service wonders if they'd now have to pay into their pension at a higher rate.
Federal annuitants can receive the FERS special retirement supplement until age 62.
A reader wonders how a salary raise increasing base pay would impact their retirement calculation.
A reader asks if their Social Security income is subject to an offset while they are receiving disability payments.
A reader with a few years to go before they reach retirement wonders how they should spend this gap time.
A moratorium on foreclosures of VA-backed home loans is set to expire at the end of the week.
Here's some advice on when to retire in a pay period.
At the end of 2025, many of the tax cuts that Trump signed into law in 2017 will expire.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will start buying veterans' failing mortgages to help them stay in their homes.
As a federal employee, you may enroll in health, dental, vision and life insurance, flexible spending accounts, and apply for long term insurance.
Refunds fall at the lower end of the priority scale behind immediate retirements and payments to survivors.
The windfall elimination provision applies to anyone who has earnings from wages or self employment where they didn’t pay Social Security taxes.
