The Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) provides retirement and disability benefits to eligible workers. If you become disabled, you may be eligible to receive FERS disability retirement ...

FCW.com's Ask Milt column explains some of the pitfalls to be aware of when applying for disability benefits under FERS I was wondering if you could better explain the disability coverage available to ...

This series began with employees waiting on accommodation requests. Now we turn to a harder scenario that's arriving in ...

This is a sponsored column by attorneys John Berry and Kimberly Berry of Berry & Berry, PLLC, an employment and labor law firm located in Northern Virginia that specializes in federal employee, ...

When you reach age 62, an artificial benefit will be calculated as if you had worked to age 62. Your actual service will be added to the time you spent on the disability rolls. That total time will be ...

This is a sponsored column by attorneys John Berry and Kimberly Berry of Berry & Berry, PLLC, an employment and labor law firm located in Northern Virginia that specializes in federal employee, ...

For some feds, federal disability can pay more each month than regular retirement benefits. For others, though, taking regular retirement pay is a better choice. A new report finds it’s often hard to ...

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Government Personnel Mutual Life Insurance Company (“GPM Life”) is pleased to introduce its new disability income product, GovDI*. Designed to meet the specific needs of ...

The following is a question submitted by a Federal Times readers about retirement and other issues facing the federal workforce. It is answered by Reg Jones, a charter member of the senior executive ...

"Phillip" is 52 years old and has saved up more than 1,500 hours of sick leave since he first started working for the federal government almost 30 years ago. He has been diagnosed with cancer. He ...