{"id":389960,"date":"2026-04-09T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389960\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:27:09","slug":"cash-strapped-us-postal-service-suspends-contributions-to-pension-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389960\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash-strapped US Postal Service suspends contributions to pension plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. Postal \u200cService said Thursday \u200cit will temporarily suspend employer \u200bpayments for a federal pension program to conserve cash amid \u200ca \u2060severe financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">USPS told the White \u2060House Office of Personnel Management it \u200bwill stop \u200bmaking $200 \u200bmillion payments every \u200cother week for its employer contributions for the defined benefit portion of the Federal \u200cEmployees Retirement \u200bSystem effective \u200bFriday. \u200bUSPS warned \u200cThursday that without reforms \u200bit \u200bcould run out of cash as \u200bsoon \u200cas February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by David \u200bShepardson; Editing by \u200bChizu Nomiyama)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. Postal \u200cService said Thursday \u200cit will temporarily suspend employer \u200bpayments for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[72,172996,176,10857,61,60,11460,174,175,172995],"class_list":{"0":"post-389960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-employer-contributions","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-financial-crisis","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-office-of-personnel-management","15":"tag-personal-finance","16":"tag-personalfinance","17":"tag-u-s-postal-service"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}