For decades, a particular kind of federal widow learned to live with a strange arithmetic: her late husband paid into Social ...
If you love statistics like I do, you will find the following information interesting. In the 2021 Federal Employee Benefits Survey, over 70% of participants reported that the availability of FEHB, ...
If you’re planning to retire next year, it’s not too early to start thinking about the best date to move on to optimize your retirement benefit and payout for unused annual leave. Let’s look at why ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Federal employees enrolled in the civil service retirement system (CSRS) may be eligible for Medicare and federal employee health benefits (FEHB) if they paid Medicare taxes. The CSRS is a federal ...
Insurance companies recently won a narrow victory in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. The court held that insurers were entitled to recover unpaid cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments that the ...
On October 22, 2019, Judge Margaret M. Sweeney issued a final decision in a class action lawsuit brought by insurers over unpaid cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments. She held that the estimated 100 ...