The Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) is a system that provided retirement, disability, and survivor benefits for most U.S. civilian service employees working for the federal government.

For those feds covered by the Civil Service Retirement System and Social Security, calculating retirement benefits can get complicated. Tammy Flanagan August 27, 2020 ...

Determining whether a Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) retiree can collect spousal Social Security benefits isn't ...

More than 165 million U.S. businesses and households entrust the U.S. Postal Service to seamlessly deliver mail and packages – be it amidst a pandemic or a severe winter storm. The men and women ...

The changes come after the Senate parliamentarian said several proposals from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee violated the Byrd Rule.

These are immediate retirement, early retirement or deferred retirement. Each of these has different requirements based on when you joined the FERS system, your number of years of service, your ...

Workers hired after 1984 are part of the Federal Employment Retirement System (FERS). Employees in the FERS system are eligible for both a Thrift Savings plan as well as Social Security benefits.

Key Takeaways. Until 1984, presidents and federal workers were covered by the Civil Service Retirement System instead of Social Security. Today, presidents pay into Social Security and are ...

The program went into effect in 1987 for all federal employees hired by the government after Dec. 31, 1983, and replaced the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) program.