PSHB Special Enrollment Period (SEP) As part of the new Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program, you may be eligible to participate in the PSHB Special Enrollment Period (SEP) for Medicare Part B. The PSHB SEP applies to certain Postal Service annuitants and family members who were entitled to Medicare Part A, but not enrolled…
Based on the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W) from the third quarter of 2021 through the third quarter of 2022, Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries will receive an 8.7 percent COLA for 2023. See 2023 Social Security Changes – Fact Sheet
No APWU member should have fewer benefits today, then when they started their career. The current APWU President and Legislative and Political Director used our benefits as a bargaining chip. Opting out of Medicare was a benefit many of our members have used. It’s a financial and personal decision. It was given away without a…
This is deja vu for me. During the Reagan years we had an exodus of employees before the effective date of each retirement cut. CSRS retirees were slapped with the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), which reduced or eliminated their Social Security benefits. Annuity COLAs were reduced to one per…
By Tammy Flanagan – January 22, 2015 As you probably know, federal employees are generally covered by one of two retirement systems: the âoldâ Civil Service Retirement System or the ânewâ Federal Employees Retirement System. But FERS isnât that new any more. It includes many employees who have accumulated 30 or more years of federal…
Good Day Postal EmployeesâŠâŠand a Very Happy New Year!!! This has been a very busy month with emails and retirements seminars. It still amazes me how many employees are still confused regarding their benefits in retirement, and the very calculation of their retirement. Many still confuse CSRS rules with FERS (very different) rules in retirement…
