When your insurance terminates, your employing office must give you a Notice of Conversion Privilege (SF 2819). If you wish to convert your coverage, you must send SF 2819 to the Office of Federal ...

If you hadn’t given much thought to retirement before receiving the Trump administration's "deferred resignation" email on ...

As tens of thousands of federal workers face the sudden loss of employment, it comes with important decisions about their excellent benefits.

All the people whose jobs are not covered by Social Security make up only about 10% of the workforce in this country.

On Feb. 11, tech billionaire Elon Musk and the Department for Government Efficiency, which he leads, made a series of claims about a limestone mine in Pennsylvania where the U.S. government allegedly ...

Federal employee retirement claims in the U.S. are processed by hand in a limestone mine in Pennsylvania. Rating: On Feb. 11, ...

This led to all kinds of conspiracy theories (that still exist to this day) that top members of government get fat and lucrative pensions while scattering crumbs to the peasants in the form of ...

The new retirement program that Congress set up was called the Federal Employees Retirement System, or FERS. They gave all old government employees hired before 1984 the option of switching from ...

In some columns I wrote earlier this month about the repeal of laws that affect people who spent a large portion of their careers working at jobs that were not covered by Social Security, it became ...