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.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2013 file photo, the Social Security Administration's main campus is seen in Woodlawn, Md. Millions of Social Security recipients and other retirees can expect another small increase in benefits in 2018. Preliminary figures suggest an increase of around 2 percent. That would mean an extra $25 a month for the average beneficiary. The Social Security Administration is scheduled to announce the cost-of-living adjustment on Oct. 13, 2017.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

SSA early retirement offers attract fewer than 200 employees

About 6,800 Social Security Administration employees were eligible for early-retirement offers, the agency said. Employees must leave the agency by Dec. 31.

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SSA continues to transform workforce by offering early retirement

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FILE - This Sept. 21, 2017 file photo shows The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building in Washington. The EPA says an internal task force appointed to revamp how the nation's most polluted sites are cleaned up generated no record of its deliberations. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

EPA may offer more buyouts, early retirement, depending on funding from Congress

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USPS offers early retirement to 26,000 mail handlers, clerks

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Nearly half of EPA watchdog’s buyouts issued to ineligible employees

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EPA employees ‘rolling the dice’ as they consider VERA/VSIP, FY18 budget cuts

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Third round of early retirements, buyouts coming to Air Force civilians

The Air Force offers a third and final round of early retirement and buyout offers this fiscal year. The service said this time it\’s targeting civilian…

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More agencies turn to targeted buyouts, early retirements

While the latest rounds of buyouts and early retirements span agencies as diverse as the Naval Sea Systems Command and the Interior Department’s Bureau…

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Buyouts: From off-the-rack to tailor made

Now that early-outs and buyouts are popping up in various agencies, the obvious question, for younger and older workers is: What’s in it for me? Unlike the one-size fits all buyouts of the 1990s, the new version is tailor-made to individual groups, grades and regions, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

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