From FERS to TSP to recent legislation, decades of policy shifts have reshaped how federal employees earn, save for and receive retirement benefits.

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Mike Zaino, of The Zaino Group, is a Registered Financial Consultant and National Retirement Counselor serving federal and postal employees. Pensions have pretty much gone the way of the dinosaur.

Lifetime earnings, career interruptions and caregiving responsibilities continue to shape retirement outcomes for women in ...

— -- More than 21,000 retired federal workers receive lifetime government pensions of $100,000 or more per year, a USA TODAY/Gannett analysis finds. Of these, nearly 2,000 have federal pensions ...

Worried federal employees, long used to job security, are left searching for answers as workforce cuts continue to slice into agencies and departments. One employee, slated to retire at the end of ...

Every year, the federal government pays $125 billion in tax dollars for federal pensions. In spite of this being such a large amount of money, there is a remarkable lack of transparency surrounding ...

The measure passed the House Oversight Committee, 22 to 21, with Representative Michael Turner, R-Ohio, joining Democrats in opposition, and is expected to move to the Budget Committee. The House ...

On April 16, 2024, the federal government tabled its 2024 budget (2024 Budget), which included a number of provisions related to pensions, benefits and executive compensation. Here is an overview of ...

After months of contending with the Trump administration’s multi-pronged effort to downsize the federal workforce, government employees are now facing the possibility of another major change that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katherine Ann Reniers' abrupt layoff from USAID will cut her monthly pension earnings. She joins many Americans who are worried ...

WASHINGTON — Distinctly unpopular among voters and a scant presence in most congressional districts, federal workers have become an easy target in the hunt for budget savings. Their retirement ...