Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS)

1311, 2013

How to Minimize Retirement Processing Delays

By |November 13th, 2013|

In a recent article, I spoke about the typical retirement processing time frames that one can expect when retiring from Federal […]

3009, 2013

What is Interim Retirement Pay?

By |September 30th, 2013|

If you are separating from Federal service for retirement purposes, keep in mind that you might not receive your initial […]

506, 2012

Will Social Security Affect Your Federal Pension?

By |June 5th, 2012|

Federal Employees Retirement System

Pensions under FERS are not reduced when a FERS retiree begins to collect Social Security.  However, if […]

1302, 2012

FERS TSP Agency Matching Contribution

By |February 13th, 2012|

If you are a FERS employee and you wish to make the maximum regular contribution of $17,000 in 2012 (limited […]

2911, 2011

Are You in the Correct Retirement System?

By |November 29th, 2011|

The rules that govern which retirement system you should be covered under are complicated and there have been many coverage errors made by agencies, especially since the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) was introduced in 1987.