The Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) provides retirement and disability benefits to eligible workers. If you become disabled, you may be eligible to receive FERS disability retirement ...

Among disability-affected retirees, 61% said they did not save enough for retirement, and a new EBRI report lays out ways advisers can help. More than half (61%) of disability-affected retirees said ...

Are you approaching retirement and wondering: Will my disability benefits change when I turn 65? If you’re eligible for Social Security disability insurance (SSDI) and retirement benefits, you may ...

Your full retirement age, or FRA, falls between 66 and 67, depending on your birth year.

Brenda Powell had suffered a stroke and was in debilitating pain when she called the Social Security Administration last year to seek disability benefits. The former Louisiana state office worker ...

A federal court has drawn a clear line for HR: trouble getting to work is not the same as being unable to do the job. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on May 27, 2026 that a ...

Life insurance policies sometimes, but not always, are included within employer-sponsored retirement plans. But disability insurance is less common to cover future retirement funding. Although there ...

There has been a lot of interest in 401(h) plans after an earlier article we wrote, but also many questions. Most of the questions about 401(h) plans have revolved around the fact that this is a ...

Deep material hardship among older Americans during the Great Depression was the main catalyst for the creation of the Social Security program. Hardship, however, continued for many years despite the ...

I’m a 44-year-old military officer planning to retire in four years after 30 years of service. My retirement pay should be about $76,000 a year, with an additional $16,000 a year in disability pay, ...

Les Masterson is a deputy editor and insurance analyst at Forbes Advisor. He has been a journalist, reporter, editor and content creator for more than 25 years. He has covered insurance for a decade, ...