Federal employees in the Washington, DC area must depart their offices no later than 2 PM EST on March 16 due to the threat of severe weather in the area. According to NBC4 Washington, “Severe storms ...

Federal payroll employment has fallen by 336,000 jobs since January 2025, a decline that far surpasses the shifts seen during Trump’s first term or throughout the four years of the Biden ...

Today we are answering literally the million-dollar question. Is $1,000,000 in the Thrift Savings Plan, or wherever you might have it as a federal employee, enough? We see federal employees reading ...

Marriage is one of the most important life events a federal employee can experience. Along with the personal milestone comes a series of administrative and financial decisions that can affect ...

The compensation figures shaping the financial future of federal civil servants and retirees are virtually finalized. While ongoing legislative debates could still alter these projections, current ...

Every month the OPM retirement backlog ended below 13,000, January 2012 to September 2026. Source: OPM data compiled by FedSmith September’s total is the first figure below 10,000 in the data and sits ...

As federal employees approach age 65, the same question comes up all the time. They see their retiring colleagues entering the Medicare system and wonder why they should make a change. Having strong ...

The VA has won a new round in its battle over union contracts, while the Bureau of Prisons has been ordered to restore an agreement running through May 2029. The outcomes differ because the courts are ...

The Social Security Fairness Act, signed into law on January 5, 2025, and applied retroactively to January 2024, created a major shift in retirement income for many federal, state, and local ...

Anyone who grew up with Bob Dylan’s music will recognize “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” He recorded it more than 60 years ago. He was not singing about artificial intelligence (AI), but the song’s ...

The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) is growing. It now has more than $1 trillion in assets. How does the TSP grow? Obviously, federal employees keep investing a portion of their income. These investments ...

In reality, there’s an important step that comes first: Evaluate the plan you already have. Many employees couldn’t tell you why they enrolled in their current plan. It may have been recommended by a ...