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Title: The Best Day to Retire From Now Until 2020
Article Snip: "...One of the biggest reasons that employees choose to retire around the end of the year is to cash in a large amount of use or lose leave. Assume we have an employee..."
Reference: www.fedsmith.comTitle: Everybody's got a price. What's yours?
Article Snip: "...Currently buyouts are available at Agriculture, Air Force, ATF, U.S. Courts, Education, FTC, GAO, GPO, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Library of Congress, the USPS, SBA, Smithsonian and the TSA. ..."
Reference: www.federalnewsradio.comTitle: The Worst Pension Gap
Article Snip: "...The Federal Employees Retirement System was created in 1986 to take the place of the old Civil Service Retirement System. Civilian federal employees hired prior to 1984 remained in the old system, while..."
Reference: www.governing.comTitle: Playing Russian roulette with your health plan
Article Snip: "...If you are a federal or postal worker who is close to retirement, thinking about taking a buyout, likely to be laid off or are involved in a shaky marriage, listen up: Your lifetime health insurance benefits may be in danger. ..."
Reference: www.federalnewsradio.comTitle: Federal retirees to get COLA increase
Article Snip: "...an increase of 3.6 percent for most, following the announcement Wednesday of Consumer Price Index figures through September...."
Reference: www.washingtonpost.comTitle: Social Security benefits to rise 3.6 percent
Article Snip: "...Social Security retirement benefits for about 55 million people will go up by 3.6 percent next year, the first cost-of-living increase since 2009, the U.S. Social Security Administration said on Wednesday...."
Reference: www.reuters.comTitle: Social Security: seniors to see COLA increase in 2012
Article Snip: "...The exact size of the COLA is yet to be determined, but it should be somewhere between ..."
Reference: www.csmonitor.comTitle: Lawmaker urges end to early federal retirement
Article Snip: "...Federal workers, including members of Congress and congressional employees, would not be able to receive their pensions until age 62 under Duncan's proposal...."
Reference: www.govexec.comTitle: Supplement eligibility
Article Snip: "...Q: I am 57 with four years of military buyback and 18 years of uninterrupted federal service. I am confused about eligibility for the special retirement supplement...."
Reference: Federal TimesTitle: Lawmaker urges end to early federal retirement
Article Snip: "..."There are many thousands of federal employees who are retiring in their 50s and even in their late 40s," Rep. John Duncan Jr., R-Tenn., said in a letter last week to members of the congressional super committee...."
Reference: www.govexec.comTitle: Federal retirees could receive COLA boost for first time since 2008
Article Snip: "...The COLA for federal retirees and Social Security and Supplemental Security Income recipients could be nearly 4 percent as of Dec. 1, based on the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...."
Reference: www.govexec.comTitle: Top federal watchdog faces budget cuts
Article Snip: "...agency is offering buyouts and early retirement offers to long-serving employees; 37 have accepted the offers, a spokesman said. The buyouts and early retirement were first offered before the budget debate began...."
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