Tom O’Rourke, a Washington-area tax and estate attorney and former IRS lawyer, shares his plan to allow federal employees to double their money and to save more than $1,000 in taxes at no risk.
A growing number of savvy feds are and have been rolling outside money into the TSP at an impressive and growing scale.
You can't personally change perceptions of federal employee ... or can't you?
A short blog post doesn't do justice to the Presidential Rank Award recipients.
The Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) requires some-to-considerable thought and work from those who want to maximize their total retirement benefits.
Are you concerned about your estate after you pass? Tom O’Rourke, a Washington area attorney who specializes in tax and estate law, shares his guide on how to avoid the most common estate planning errors.
In following its congressional mandate to keep-it-simple, keep-it-inexpensive to operate, the TSP doesn’t offer some perks that outside plans (that often cost users much, much more) do.
If you see something, say something. It’s a simple phrase that carries a lot of weight if you’re a federal whistleblower.
That 2.7 percent raise doesn't look like so much with prices on the rise. Inflation is scariest for retirees.
The number of self-made members of the TSP’s millionaires club jumped again last month.
Whether you’re a lifer with Uncle Sam, or your current job is just training for a better gig in the private sector, odds are one of these days you will retire.
Spoiler Alert: If you live and work in Miami, or New Orleans, San Diego or Death Valley you can probably skip this one. Unless… Unless, and this covers a lot of territory and folks, you…
Evidence of how the government's pandemic response produced more than checks and shots
Technology will only enable what thinking people can envision.
Tom's more or less semi-annual compilation of words and phrases that really get on our nerves.