"I would count on the fact that there's going to be a standstill in processing, at least at the agency level," said Tammy Flanagan.

Federal News Network has compiled answers to what happens to federal pay, benefits and retirement during a government shutdown, based on agency guidance.

Tens of thousands of government workers are preparing to leave the federal workforce Tuesday, the final day for many who took ...

Download the Best Dates to Retire Calendar. Here is the calendar to go with last week’s guidance to help you plan your best ...

Throughout this year of VERA, VSIP, RIF, DSR, and the new one, DRP 1.0 and DRP 2.0, many employees are trying to hurry up and learn what it takes to retire. This is an update to an article I wrote ...

Under the RAND Corp.’s optimistic model, the proposed Retirement Savings for Americans Act could help the bottom 10% of earners save $126,000 over a 40-year working career. The bill, reintroduced in ...

(Bloomberg) -- The federal personnel agency has launched an online system for processing retirement applications, ending a paper-based method that had remained largely unchanged for decades. The ...

Both Social Security and Medicare have their own income streams, separate from the federal government's general fund. This ...

The failure to reach a budget agreement will shut down much of the federal government on Wednesday, but that won’t stop the ...

Elon Musk asserted last week that before any US federal employee can retire, their paper records have to be processed more than 200 feet underground in an old limestone mine located in rural ...

Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.