FedLife: Pay and benefits, fashion, events, and more

Can I retire early and still receive my FERS benefits?

If you began your federal career in or after 1987, you are under the Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS).

3 days ago

Is the best day to retire for a CSRS enrollee different than FERS?

Both CSRS and FERS employees need to retire before the end of the leave year to be paid for all their accumulated leave.

4 days ago

Lifestyle

Medical care, child care: How shutdown could affect military families

Inpatient care and acute and emergency outpatient care in DoD medical facilities would be immune from a shutdown.

GAO union employees keep flexible work options in new contract

Other agencies have been pressured to increase in-person attendance in recent months.

4 days ago

Will I get paid for all the annual leave I have accrued at retirement?

"Use or lose" annual leave is the amount of accrued annual leave that is in excess of the employee's maximum annual leave limitation for carry over.

4 days ago

Biden creates New Deal-style American Climate Corps for job training

The program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels.

4 days ago

Marine veteran Ray Epps pleads guilty to Capitol riot charge

Ray Epps, who claimed in a lawsuit that Fox News made him a scapegoat for the Capitol riot, was charged with disorderly conduct on restricted grounds.

4 days ago

Would federal retirement services continue during government shutdown?

Here's what you need to know if you're planning to retire this year while the 2024 funding situation is still uncertain.

6 days ago

Biden beefs up government worker safeguards as Republicans bash feds

Effort includes clarifications that federal employees can’t lose certain civil service protections unless they give them up voluntarily.

6 days ago

Can I keep my Tricare insurance if I buy back military service time?

Tricare is a health care program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System.

6 days ago

Is the truth out there? NASA wants to help build public trust on UFOs

The agency could play a major role in data collection and further research objects of unknown origins in Earth’s atmosphere.

9 days ago

House Republicans demand data on VA abortion procedures

Lawmakers want more information on how many procedures have been performed and how they were justified.

9 days ago

VA won’t restart health records overhaul until next summer, if at all

Multiple House lawmakers expressed doubt that the expensive vets records project can be saved.

10 days ago

Can age affect Federal Employees Retirement System disability benefit?

FERS applicants are eligible as long as they have at least 18 months of credible service with the federal government.

10 days ago

Forrest Powell, left, deputy director, state of Alaska Office of Veterans Affairs, assists local veterans with their earned benefits during an outreach event at the Aurora Inn in Nome, Alaska, July 9, 2022.

Opinions

Vets don’t deserve to be preyed upon by unaccredited ‘claims coaches’

Veterans should have a choice in how they pursue benefits, but also protection from those who will take advantage of the VA disability system.

11 days ago

US ambassador visits Marine veteran jailed in Russia for espionage

Paul Whelan, a corporate security director and Marine veteran, was detained in Moscow in 2018 and convicted in 2020.

11 days ago

Mitt Romney to retire, make way for a ‘new generation of leaders’

Romney in 2020 became the first senator in U.S. history to vote to convict a president from their own party in an impeachment trial.

11 days ago

Federal Long Term Care insurance premiums to increase in 2024

It’s not the first time rates have increased under the program, which for several years has been the subject of Congressional inquiry.

11 days ago

Can a LEO retire with an immediate annuity at 50?

Firefighters are eligible for full retirement benefits at earlier ages and under more favorable terms than federal employees under regular FERS rules.

12 days ago

FedLife

From pay to benefits to fashion and events, Fed Life keeps you up to date on what’s happening inside the Beltway and beyond.

If you began your federal career in or after 1987, you are under the Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS).

Both CSRS and FERS employees need to retire before the end of the leave year to be paid for all their accumulated leave.

Inpatient care and acute and emergency outpatient care in DoD medical facilities would be immune from a shutdown.

Other agencies have been pressured to increase in-person attendance in recent months.

"Use or lose" annual leave is the amount of accrued annual leave that is in excess of the employee's maximum annual leave limitation for carry over.

The program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels.

Ray Epps, who claimed in a lawsuit that Fox News made him a scapegoat for the Capitol riot, was charged with disorderly conduct on restricted grounds.

Here's what you need to know if you're planning to retire this year while the 2024 funding situation is still uncertain.

Effort includes clarifications that federal employees can’t lose certain civil service protections unless they give them up voluntarily.

Tricare is a health care program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System.

The agency could play a major role in data collection and further research objects of unknown origins in Earth’s atmosphere.

Lawmakers want more information on how many procedures have been performed and how they were justified.

Multiple House lawmakers expressed doubt that the expensive vets records project can be saved.

FERS applicants are eligible as long as they have at least 18 months of credible service with the federal government.

Veterans should have a choice in how they pursue benefits, but also protection from those who will take advantage of the VA disability system.

Paul Whelan, a corporate security director and Marine veteran, was detained in Moscow in 2018 and convicted in 2020.

Romney in 2020 became the first senator in U.S. history to vote to convict a president from their own party in an impeachment trial.

It’s not the first time rates have increased under the program, which for several years has been the subject of Congressional inquiry.

Firefighters are eligible for full retirement benefits at earlier ages and under more favorable terms than federal employees under regular FERS rules.