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WAEPA offers up to $1.5M in coverage, [12] as well as a Chronic Illness Rider, [13] Guaranteed Issue Group Term Life Insurance, [14] and Group Short-Term Disability Insurance [15] for new federal employees. Since 1996, WAEPA has refunded over $101 Million dollars in premiums to its members.
Employees hired after 1983 are required to be covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), which is a three tiered retirement system with a smaller defined benefit (pension), Social Security, and a 401(k)-style system called the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The defined benefits of both the CSRS and the FERS systems are paid out of ...
The Office of Workers' Compensation Programs administers four major disability compensation programs which provide wage replacement benefits, medical treatment, vocational rehabilitation and other benefits to certain workers or their dependents who experience work-related injury or occupational disease. [2]
By phone: Call SSA at 800-772-1213 (or 800-325-0718 for TTY), Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. In person: Visit your local SSA office; you can find it through the SSA office locator .
SSA also provides services through a national toll-free number (1-800-772-1213) and a website. Retirement and disability benefits can be applied for online. [20] For survivor benefits, however, members of the public must call or visit SSA in person to apply.
A modified process is used in the case of children for whom Supplemental Security Income benefits are being claimed [4] (as children are not expected to work). For adults, part of the disability-determination process involves assessing the applicant's "residual functional capacity": what the applicant can do in spite of the disability. [5]
Federal Employees Retirement System - covers approximately 2.44 million full-time civilian employees (as of Dec 2005). [2]Retired pay for U.S. Armed Forces retirees is, strictly speaking, not a pension but instead is a form of retainer pay. U.S. military retirees do not vest into a retirement system while they are on active duty; eligibility for non-disability retired pay is solely based upon ...
It was not until 1920, that the Civil Service Retirement System [2] (CSRS), that federal civilian employees were granted retirement, disability, and survivor benefits. In 1921, 14 retired federal government workers met to form an association to protect the hard-earned retirement benefits of federal civilian employees, retirees, and their ...