If you love statistics like I do, you will find the following information interesting. In the 2021 Federal Employee Benefits Survey, over 70% of participants reported that the availability of FEHB, ...

Last week's column about the best time to apply for Social Security prompted some comments and questions from employees who are covered under the Civil Service Retirement System Offset. CSRS Offset is ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

The same inflation that continues to take a toll on household finances resulted in a historic 2023 cost-of-living adjustment increase. The 8.7 percent COLA is the largest in 42 years and will boost ...

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 ...

Tennessee Insurance Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak talks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about cost sharing reductions — federal reimbursements to insurance companies that are key to the Affordable Care Act. In ...

Federal employees enrolled in the civil service retirement system (CSRS) may be eligible for Medicare and federal employee health benefits (FEHB) if they paid Medicare taxes. The CSRS is a federal ...

On October 22, 2019, Judge Margaret M. Sweeney issued a final decision in a class action lawsuit brought by insurers over unpaid cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments. She held that the estimated 100 ...

Insurance companies recently won a narrow victory in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. The court held that insurers were entitled to recover unpaid cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments that the ...