A federal employee with 30 years of service and a $90,000 high-3 average salary receives only $27,000 annually under FERS, just 30% of pre-retirement income. Closing that gap requires understanding ...

The call center has become the most overloaded part of home services. Not because customers changed, but because too many internal tasks ended up on the customer service representative's line. We saw ...

Federal employees enrolled in the civil service retirement system (CSRS) may be eligible for Medicare and federal employee health benefits (FEHB) if they paid Medicare taxes. The CSRS is a federal ...

Launched in 2003, Canada’s Precise Point Positioning (PPP) service, CSRS-PPP, continues to solidify its place as a world-class GNSS post-processing platform. Operated by the Canadian Geodetic Survey ...

CSRS President Tim Barfield said he wasn’t planning to sell the Baton Rouge-based design, engineering and program management firm he has run since 2016, when a Dallas-area company came calling in 2022 ...

Westwood Professional Services, a Texas-based engineering and consulting firm with offices across the U.S., plans to acquire Baton Rouge-based CSRS. Tim Barfield, CSRS president, confirmed the firm ...

The ASIC, ASSP, and system-on-chip (SoC) design landscape has undergone significant evolution over the past two decades. For example, while early devices contained only tens of intellectual property ...

States and health insurers received new guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) May 2 on how to prepare should Congress fund cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments or extend ...

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Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...