Benefits
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Senior Correspondent Mike Causey asks, how would you like to work for a place where management offered you a wide variety of health plans, paid for a majority of your premium and let you shop at home or on company time?
November 30, 2015 -
For a lot of feds this is Day Two of a 4-day Thanksgiving break. A good time to make pre-New Year’s resolutions, resolve to get back on that diet and exercise regime, and to pick your 2016 health plan.
November 27, 2015 -
If you are a retired federal, worker there's a good chance you are in the wrong health plan. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey tells you how to get out.
November 25, 2015 David Snell, director of retirement benefits at NARFE, joins host Mike Causey to go through the pros and cons of different health plans are available for both retirees and working feds. November 24, 2015
November 24, 2015-
Do your Thanksgiving plans include tossing $2,000 out the window? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey gives you this recipe for saving that money.
November 24, 2015 -
OPM recently posted a video reminding federal employees that now is the time to make any changes to their health, vision and dental benefits plans.
November 23, 2015 -
If you're the belt and suspenders type, listen up. Thanks to the magic of Medicare, federal employees have the option of getting extra coverage after they retire. Federal benefits expert Tammy Flanagan, senior benefits director for the National Institute of Transition Planning, explains to Federal Drive with Tom Temin some of the fine points of combining Medicare with your federal employee health benefits plan.
November 23, 2015 -
A potential health and retirement roadblock is fast approaching that Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says will test the road warrior skills of government workers and retirees.
November 23, 2015 On this episode of FEDTalk, our host Tony Vergnetti, President of Federal Employee Defense Services (FEDS), discusses the five biggest mistakes made in retirement planning with Michael and Glenn Livingston from Livinston Financial Planning.
November 20, 2015-
The end of Open Season is just around the corner and Federal News Radio has got your back. Send us your Open Season questions and we'll do our best to answer them before the Dec. 14 Open Season deadline.
November 19, 2015 -
Walton Francis, expert and adviser on federal health insurance joined Federal News Radio Senior Correspondent Mike Causey for an online chat about navigating FEHBP’s increases and plan eliminations for 2016.
November 19, 2015 -
How would you like to have your health plan pay you next year? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it can happen if you know how.
November 18, 2015 Federal benefits expert Walton Francis, author of the Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees, joins host Mike Causey to answer your questions about health savings accounts and health plan options available to federal and postal workers. November 18, 2015
November 17, 2015-
Are you going to blow another $2,000 on your federal health plan next year? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says saving money is easy when you know how.
November 17, 2015 -
Federal employees are frustrated by long wait times and poor communication about why it's taking so long to change benefits during Open Season.
November 16, 2015