Commentary
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The windfall elimination provision reduces the Social Security benefit for someone with less than 30 years of covered service if they qualify for an SSA benefit after as little as five years of covered service.
August 02, 2019 -
Thanks to a 1997 tax law that included the then-new Roth option, many people saving for retirement now have two choices.
August 01, 2019 -
The idea that the recent budget agreement between House and Senate leaders and President Trump guarantees there will be no shutdown is wrong.
July 31, 2019 -
Have you had your professional mid-life crisis yet? If not, this might be a good time to get it over with.
July 31, 2019 -
Gary Gray, William Riski and George Schleh of Acquisition Systems Associates, make the case for why DoD should be more aggressive in their use of middle tier acquisition approaches.
July 30, 2019 -
Should you stick with the TSP? Or would you be happier elsewhere? Financial expert and successful TSP investor Abraham Grungold shares his thoughts.
July 29, 2019 -
It has been over one year since this blog discussed the issues associated with the Defense Department’s plan and justification for its single-award of a $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative (JEDI) cloud contract. DoD’s…
July 26, 2019 -
The Trump administration wants to share some of the D.C. wealth by moving jobs — but not necessarily the people in them — to other parts of the nation that could use the business.
July 26, 2019 -
The new budget deal between Congress and the White House includes a two-year ban on sequestration-related furloughs for federal workers.
July 25, 2019 -
Altaz Valani, the research director with Security Compass, and Hasan Yasar, the interim director at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, outline five key concepts to move agencies toward continuous monitoring.
July 24, 2019 -
Congress should enable facial with good oversight, not ban it.
July 24, 2019 -
Benefits expert Tammy Flanagan joins Your Turn today to answer questions about Social Security and retirement applicable to both federal and private sector workers.
July 24, 2019 -
Thousands of feds in some of FEHBP's best and most expensive health plans may be spared from a pending 40% tax on their favorite plans.
July 23, 2019 -
Maybe the JEDI procurement isn't such a big deal after all.
July 22, 2019 -
Turns out the plan to move Washington-based civil servants closer to the geographic areas they deal with, and the taxpayers they serve, isn’t as cut-and-dried as getting a new Amazon facility.
July 22, 2019