{"id":1030,"date":"2026-04-15T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:51:07","slug":"usps-suspends-employer-contribution-for-fers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/2026\/04\/15\/usps-suspends-employer-contribution-for-fers\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS suspends employer contribution for FERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the United States Postal Service\u2019s (USPS) decision to suspend its employer contributions to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund (CSRDF) for the defined benefit portion of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), effective 10 April 2026, NARFE National President William Shackelford issued the following statement. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/14\/narfe-questions-usps-decision-to-suspend-fers-employer-contributions\/?_zs=IQofm&amp;_zl=Q9fj3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#postalservice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE questions USPS decision to suspend FERS employer contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2026\/04\/2026-04-15-usps-blue-mailboxes.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}