Determining whether a Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) retiree can collect spousal Social Security benefits isn't always easy. Typically, because those under CSRS do not pay into Social Security ...

It’s a new year and there are new benefit amounts that take effect at the beginning of each year as well as basic pay adjustments for federal workers under the General Schedule and cost of living ...

Errors involving survivor benefits, health coverage and court orders can create financial problems years after a marriage ...

For decades, a particular kind of federal widow learned to live with a strange arithmetic: her late husband paid into Social ...

I am a Federal Employee Retirement System worker who converted from the Civil Service Retirement System. Under FERS, the only sick leave that I can convert for retirement is 100 hours that I built up ...

I retired from the federal government 10 years ago under the Civil Service Retirement System program. I applied for my Medicare before the three-month timeframe. I was told that I would not receive ...

As a federal employee enrolled in the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS), you will still have paid Medicare taxes. This means you may be eligible for Medicare and Federal Employee Health Benefits ...

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