In your column titled "Windfall elimination and CSRS," I think you missed the mark. Your questioner stated that his federal pension would be reduced at age 62. I believe that his question was ...
These days, I don’t get as many questions about the Windfall Elimination Provision or the Government Pension Offset as I used to. That’s mostly because the majority of federal employees currently on ...
We’ve all experienced buyer’s remorse at one time or another. You buy something new only to discover there’s a better version of what you just purchased, or ...
The Federal Erroneous Retirement Coverage Corrections Act (FERCCA) was enacted in September, 2000 and designed to provide relief to federal civilian employees who were placed in the wrong federal ...
Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...
Looking for a guaranteed annual rate of return for retirement savings? If you're covered by the Civil Service Retirement System or CSRS Offset, the "voluntary contributions" program might be an ...
Do you know of any situations where years of service working as a contractor to the federal government can be applied to a Federal Employees Retirement System retirement? I worked for more than five ...
Dear Rusty: I retired with a (gross) $4600 per month Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) annuity from the US Postal Service in December 2022. I am 66 and will attain full retirement age in November ...