It's convenient and easy to apply online for your Social Security benefits. Open a secure my Social Security account and take it from there. Read on to learn how.

However, opting for early retirement comes with a 30% reduction in monthly benefits. ... Despite this reduction, if all ...

The Office of Personnel Management announced last week that it will roll out a new “paperless” retirement application for use across the federal government next month. But experts warn the ...

Federal retirement applications will have to be electronic starting early next month, marking a step away from the government’s paper-based process for retiring workers, under which an infamous ...

Y ou can conveniently track the status of your retirement or disability Social Security application through your my Social Security account. Upon logging in, navigate to the "Your Benefit ...

The government has been raising the full retirement age by two months per year for the last several years. In 2024, FRA is 66 ...

While OPM’s retirement application processing system remains largely paper-based, the agency is also working on an online retirement application pilot that could launch later this year. An online ...

If you hadn’t given much thought to retirement before receiving the Trump administration's "deferred resignation" email on Jan. 28, you may be in for a few surprises—not all of them pleasant.

The federal government’s HR agency’s work on improving the retirement application process for federal workers led to the agency shattering yet another longstanding record last month.

In January 2025, OPM received over new 16,000 retirement claims and processed 6,700. January usually sees an influx of retirement applications; the month before, OPM received 5,020 and processed ...