USPS: OPM clarifies pandemic leave effect on retirement deductions

The Postal Service wants employees who took leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to know how it will affect their retirement deductions. The law, also known as the FFCRA, requires some employers to provide employees with emergency paid sick leave and expanded family and medical leave for child care. The leave benefit went…

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USPS NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES: CSRS / FERS Civilian Service Deposits and Redeposits  

CSRS CIVILIAN SERVICE DEPOSITS AND REDEPOSITS Did you perform Federal civilian service for which retirement deductions were not paid? Did you perform Federal civilian service and receive a lump sum refund of your retirement contributions? Did you have civilian service under another Federal Retirement System? If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, this…

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Bamboozled: How a $357 check turned into a big fat zero … for now

By Karin Price Mueller – February 23, 2015 Forget for a moment how you feel about your own financial situation. Forget if you feel that government workers get too many benefits. Forget what you think about the fiscal health of the governments that are on the hook for those employees’ pension payments. And forget if…

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