Disability pensions are under scrutiny again, as more evidence mounts that spurious claims are bleeding public pension funds and the nation's Social Security disability plan. At the federal level, the ...

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

An NYPD officer debilitated by COVID and unable to work again won’t get a line-of-duty disability pension because of disagreement at the Police Pension Fund over how to handle such cases. Although the ...

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Minnesota offers a cautionary tale of increasing PTSD disabilities, says columnist Mark Patinkin. In Central Falls, 49 of 108 police and fire retirees are on disability – 45%. In Johnston, it's 75%.

Former Oakland police officer Michael Shinn was on leave with a broken finger when he found out his boss planned to fire him for failing to file a report, according to an account in a recent ruling ...

June 21--A dozen former Hazleton employees collected more than $340,000 in disability pension payments in 2014, with the cost accounting for about 15 percent of the $2.57 million in pension payments ...

Top Connecticut state officials — including the governor, legislative leaders and those overseeing the retirement system — vowed to make a series of sweeping reforms to address glaring loopholes in ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...