Learn about our editorial policies Saving for retirement takes time and discipline. You also need to make sure you're setting aside enough money to maintain your current lifestyle. But ...

Source: Federal Employee Group Life Insurance handbook, Office of Personnel Management, p26. Basic FEGLI insurance costs between $10-$30 per pay period. It’s very inexpensive while employed, but the ...

Four Southern states rank in the top five nationally for their dependence on federal dollars, according to a new report. And a very northern state, Alaska, is the most “federally dependent ...

Thousands of federal workers have been fired by the Trump administration and DOGE. Now, some states are hoping to lure those workers into state governments. They include New York, Pennsylvania ...

In 2024, there were 236 recipients from 30 federal agencies. The awards also were canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and in 2013 for budgetary reasons. Recently, Trump has sought to ...

The wave of federal government layoffs in 2025 impacts tens of thousands of public sector workers. The cuts, part of President Donald Trump's broader effort to reduce government spending ...

Governor Maura Healey has unveiled a new website to recruit the federal employees laid off in the wake of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. Healey’s administration announced the ...

Those groups, which represent retirement systems for droves of unions and public sector employees, are also aware of how many of those pensions are tied up in corporate investments that would be ...

Listen and subscribe to Decoding Retirement on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. If given the opportunity to do things over, many retirees say they would've ...

The federal job cuts are the work of Elon Musk’s White House advisory team, which has been tearing through agencies. NEW YORK — Scrambling to replace their health insurance and find new work ...

A federal judge on Friday rejected a request to block employees with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing a sensitive federal payment system at the Treasury Department.

Federal government employment fell by 10,000 in February, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, a decline from the 9,000 federal jobs added last month as Elon ...