I retired from the Federal Government in November 2002 after 20 years. I was 61 years old and retired on the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) plan. I have paid Social Security most of my adult ...

Pensions used to be fairly standard for private-sector workers in the United States, but that was long ago. Only one-quarter of civilian workers were offered a traditional pension plan as recently as ...

Dear Liz: When is the “sweet spot” for me to start receiving Social Security benefits? I am retired and collecting two government pensions — mine and my ex-husband’s. I paid into Social Security for ...

Question: Karen from Harrison: I worked in local government for almost 30 years, but I had some side jobs in retail as well. So I’ll have a public pension and get Social Security benefits, right?

Social Security is a government program that serves about 68 million people, so you might use one word to describe it: ...