Don't unnecessarily delay or reduce your Social Security benefits because you don't know all the rules and requirements.

Your Social Security benefit is based on your income during your 35 highest-earning years. The longer you wait to apply for Social Security, the larger your checks will be, until you qualify for your ...

Knowing when to retire can be as complicated as knowing where, exactly, to retire. From economic to emotional and even ...

What Are Social Security Benefits? Social Security is a social insurance program created in 1935 to pay workers an income once they retired at age 65 or older. When people talk about Social Security ...

Of course, with any federal process, you’ll have forms to fill out. If you are a Federal Employee Retirement Systems (FERS) ...

One of a financial advisor’s most difficult and important roles is helping a client through the challenges of losing a spouse. In addition to the grief of dealing with the death of a loved one, there ...

New retirees awaiting full benefits may face holiday heartache as the backlog swelled to nearly 50,000 by the end of November.

Last week, we looked at three former federal employees who all made the same error when completing form RI 92-19, FERS Application for Deferred or Postponed ...