FERS employees now outnumber CSRS employees by two to one and by 2014, nearly all federal employees will be covered by FERS, writes benefits expert Reg Jones. “This particular shift will give rise to a variety of hoary old rumors designed to alternately increase or dash the hopes of those employees in the old retirement system,” he writes. You’ll find his column at https://www.fedweek.com/content/ev/index.php.