Author: Benefits Ben

How does annual leave impact a federal employees’ retirement? How does it accumulate, and in what situations can it be restored?

Winter is here and OPM has updated their guidelines for Weather and Safety leave.

The end of the year is when a lot of feds decide to retire. Here’s a quick checklist about the process for submitting a retirement application.

An update on NASA’s unmanned mission to the lunar orbit, plus Boeing’s X-37B spaceship lands after over 900 days in orbit.

The backlog of pending retirement claims in OPM’s inventory hit its lowest point of the year – but the end-of-year surge is looming.

In what situations can you use sick leave? Can you use annual leave instead if you’re sick? How is sick leave credited when calculating your FERS or CSRS pension?

Passing both chambers of Congress, a recent piece of legislation is set to provide a major fix to federal retirement special provisions.

Although the 4.6% average pay raise for federal employees is pretty set – it has yet to be finalized.

Read about the “most corrupt” agent in DEA’s history who was just sentenced by a Federal Judge in Tampa Bay, FL.

There’s increasing outside pressure from the executive branch on the TSP’s governing body to assess potential risks due to climate change – but is there a real threat or is…