Federal retirees often discover that Medicare’s Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount (IRMAA) increases their Part B and Part D premiums. A reader in an online comment in a recent FedSmith article, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) retirement backlog fell to 49,888 in April 2026, a decrease of 5,793 claims (10.4%) from the end of March. It’s the second straight month of decline and the ...

A federal judge ordered the Bureau of Prisons to restore its union contract through May 2029. Eight days later, the agency terminated the agreement again. Now a contempt motion and a new legal ...

A former senior federal employee has admitted he invented a top secret program out of thin air and used it to steer about $194 million in government money into South Florida real estate, gold bars, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...