As a federal employee enrolled in the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS), you will still have paid Medicare taxes. This means you may be eligible for Medicare and Federal Employee Health Benefits ...

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 ...

I retired from the Federal Government in November 2002 after 20 years. I was 61 years old and retired on the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) plan. I have paid Social Security most of my adult ...

Federal retirees under FERS are urging for fair cost-of-living adjustments, as they receive smaller COLAs compared to CSRS retirees, which undermines their financial security and erodes the value of ...

For decades, a particular kind of federal widow learned to live with a strange arithmetic: her late husband paid into Social ...

I retired from the federal government 10 years ago under the Civil Service Retirement System program. I applied for my Medicare before the three-month timeframe. I was told that I would not receive ...