The “Other” Civil Service System
Information concerning Federal Disability Retirement benefits will often refer to the universe of “FERS” employees (acronym for Federal Employees Retirement System, which was enacted by Congress in 1986 and became effective the following year), with little to no information concerning its replacement system, the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). There are, additionally, some hybrid systems, sometimes referred to as CSRS-Offset; but […]