{"id":390152,"date":"2026-04-09T16:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390152\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:52:07","slug":"thousands-of-federal-public-servants-apply-for-early-retirement-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390152\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of federal public servants apply for early retirement program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The program was announced in the fall and allows some federal workers to retire early without a pension penalty.Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Thousands of federal public servants have applied for early retirement since the program was launched late last month.<\/p>\n

Mohammad Kamal, spokesperson for the Office of the President of the Treasury Board, says 3,700 federal workers have applied for the program.<\/p>\n

The program, which was announced in the fall, is part of the government\u2019s efforts to reduce the number of public servants and allows some federal workers to retire early without a pension penalty.<\/p>\n

About 68,000 public servants have received notice that they may be eligible for the program.<\/p>\n

While Kamal says public servants have until July 24 to apply, the timeline for accepting or rejecting those applications remains unclear as those decisions are up to individual departments.<\/p>\n

The Liberals\u2019 2025 budget outlined a plan to slash the public service by 10 per cent by the end of the 2028-29 fiscal year and Kamal says the government is hoping to reduce layoffs through the early retirement program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The program was announced in the fall and allows some federal workers to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2522,2511,2523,2476,2503,2524,72,289,2502,2516,2517,2513,2504,2501,113,835,246,2515,176,2509,2533,2505,2506,1523,61,60,2512,166,1529,2525,768,2528,2529,2531,2526,2530,2152,2527,174,175,2507,2519,2520,1650,2518,2153,2510,80,2521,2514,2508,268,2532],"class_list":["post-390152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-finance","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390152","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=390152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}