Federal Report
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The down side of the pay raise that takes effect next week is that more highly successful, long time civil servants will be hit by the pay cap.
December 30, 2019 -
Lots of people who live in high tax states relocate for retirement.
December 27, 2019 -
No shutdown. Check. A pay raise. Check. A retiree COLA. Check. Now what? Today’s guest columnist, Nancy Crosby says be happy, exercise—and when in doubt, take a nap.
December 26, 2019 -
If you are off today, have fun. If you're working, we thank you.
December 25, 2019 -
It's a very different Christmas from last year when tens of thousands of federal workers were locked out of their job.
December 24, 2019 -
Just about everybody knows the stock market is long overdue for a correction of 20% or more — maybe a lot more.
December 23, 2019 -
White collar federal civil servants are on track to get a 3.1% pay raise next year — the largest in a decade for 1.2 million civil servants.
December 20, 2019 -
After decades covering the federal beat some patterns become evident, like the question of a Christmas Eve day off.
December 19, 2019 -
Timing federal retirement right allows you to carry over the maximum amount of annual leave, and in 2020 be paid for most if not all of it at the new higher 3.1% pay raise.
December 18, 2019 -
Regardless of how your federal 401k plan is doing, December has some critical dates remaining which investors should know about to get the maximum gains and tax breaks
December 17, 2019 -
If there’s a government shutdown next year, in late 2020, will air traffic controllers on paid parental leave actually get paid?
December 16, 2019 -
A year ago this week some long-service, long-suffering federal government workers were prepping for the slim possibility of a government shutdown over Christmas.
December 13, 2019 -
Experts on Wall Street and world financial markets have been predicting another recession, some almost daily, since the last one ended more than 10 years ago.
December 12, 2019 -
When many people consider purchasing long term care insurance, which isn’t cheap, they weigh the odds and worry that they might not collect.
December 11, 2019 -
Just about everybody with money in the stock market knows that the current, record long bull market has got to end someday.
December 10, 2019