Pay & Benefits

Social Security card, treasury check and 100 dollar bills. Concept of social security benefits payment, retirement and federal government benefits

Retirement from work isn’t retirement from life

Retirement from a career should mean an exciting new phase in life — not a glidepath to the graveyard. Federal retirees tend to be a feisty group.

Retirement

(USDA/Forest Service photo by Mark Pieper)

Forest service, Firefighter on a maintenance prescribed burn at Bitterroot National Forest

Wildland firefighters at the Forest Service work beyond their job duties. Their union says that’s a big problem

Workforce

Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)

How to control your stomach during investment roller coasters

TSP

TSP returns for August mostly down, but still positive

TSP

Federal employees likely to see 2% pay raise in 2025

Federal Newscast

The day you enlist is the day you should start planning for retirement

Retirement

(AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Biden issues pay plan with 2% federal pay raise recommendation

Pay

Thrift savings plan TSP written on a piggy bank.

Stock market returns got an F lately. Maybe the F Fund is the answer

TSP

Tom Temin and Ken Dieffenbach, Executive Director of Pandemic Response Accountability Committee

How the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation plugged a hole in a relief program

Benefits

locality pay, minimum wage

You keep a close eye on all things locality pay

Tom Temin Commentary

Contracting FNN

Big or small business, ‘this’ type of federal contractor does the best job

Contracting

Social Security, SSA, worker, telework, episodic telework

Social Security’s case backlogs are sliding the wrong way

“These are very complex cases that require special attention,” Mark Searight said.

Retirement

A Medicare card

Feds with Benefits: An introduction, and advice about Medicare Part B

Consumers’ Checkbook Senior Editor Kevin Moss introduces his new column on FEHB benefits, and kicks things off with some advice on Medicare Part B.

Feds with Benefits

Retirement

Wow! Federal retirement, and protecting it, mean hard work!

Tom Temin Commentary

From WEP/GPO repeal to getting a rational long term care insurance program, the work, pay, benefit and federal retirement issues never end.

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