{"id":1704,"date":"2026-02-02T16:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:16:34","slug":"annual-adjustments-to-retirement-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/2026\/02\/02\/annual-adjustments-to-retirement-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Adjustments to Retirement Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government Executive Article by Tammy Flanagan:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/pay-benefits\/2026\/01\/federal-retirees-face-new-colas-premiums-and-earnings-limits-2026\/411043\/?oref=ge-featured-river-secondary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Federal retirees face new COLAs, premiums and earnings limits in 2026<\/strong><\/a><br>\nAnnual adjustments to retirement benefits, FEHB costs, Social Security rules and TSP limits are now taking effect. Ms. Flanagan goes over the Pay and Retirement Benefit Adjustments and other items such as Social Security Earnings Limit and when person retiring should receive different payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Federal Employees and Retirees wonder when to expect payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/01\/2026-01-21-retirement-plan-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}