Pay & Benefits

• TSP accounts on track to hit four positive months in a row

  By Dorothy Ramienski Internet Editor FederalNewsRadio The first quarter of the year is coming to a close, which means TSP participants should look for their quarterly statements. Tom Trabucco is the Director of External Affairs…

  Benefits

  June 29, 2009
• Baby-proofing Your Finances

  When you are about to have a baby, whether it is your first or your fifth, things change. Big time. Which is why the subject of today\'s column is baby-proofing your finances.

  Mike Causey

  June 26, 2009
• A possible cure for the FERS flu?

  As you probably know by now, the tobacco bill was signed into law without a cure for the FERS flu. All is not lost, however. Yesterday the House passed a bill that included a possible…

  Benefits

  June 25, 2009
• Paper Performance: Merit Pay

  Guests - Jessica Klement, FMA and Terry Rosen, AFGE

  Mike Causey

  June 24, 2009
• Causey on Pay-for-Performance

  Pay-for-performance within the federal government has been controversial for years. The Defense Department’s system — NSPS — has been the subject of endless debate since it began. Recently, DoD and OPM said they are taking…

  Defense

  June 23, 2009
• Elusive Benefits

  Remember the Pony, Puppy, or Python that you wanted but never got for Christmas? Year after year you were disappointed even after you had given it a name and set aside a special place for…

  Mike Causey

  June 23, 2009
• Inside Government – June 19th, 2009

  Matthew Brooks President, AFGE Local 527 (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Rick Perlstein Author, \"Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America\" Gloria Totten President, Progressive Majority Dean Baker Co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research

  Benefits

  June 18, 2009
• Following the Money: Roth Options in the TSP

  Guests - Tom Trabucco, Director of External Affairs for the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board; Certified Financial Planner Rebecca Schreiber

  Mike Causey

  June 17, 2009
• Expanding benefits

  Same sex partners who work for the federal government may receive word today about expanded benefits. The announcement is expected to extend federal health and other benefits to gay and Lesbian employees. The State Department…

  Federal Drive

  June 17, 2009
• Roths & Outside Investments: When & How Much?

  When will the just-approved Roth option be available to federal and postal investors in the Thrift Savings Plan? Will members of the uniformed military services (as in Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard)…

  Benefits

  June 17, 2009
• Back Story on the Tobacco Bill

  Despite gavel-to-gavel coverage of Congress and the media microscope on government operations, much of what happens here in Washington is under the radar. Hearings, at which news is sometimes made, are held. It gives the…

  Benefits

  June 16, 2009
• Happy Days for TSP Investors

  Permit me to start today’s column with my granddaughter’s favorite joke. It goes like this: “Horse walks into a bar. The bartender says ‘why the long face?'” Get it? Long face! Horse. Get it? Now,…

  Benefits

  June 15, 2009
• Shout it from the rooftops and tell it to the TSP

  If you love your family, fill out your TSP beneficiary forms (pdf). Arthur Stein joins us for our weekly talk with financial experts to discusses common and costly mistakes feds make with their TSP beneficary…

  Federal Drive

  June 12, 2009
• Sick leave legislation update

  Congress is debating a measure that would force companies to offer up to seven days of paid sick leave. And that includes federal contractors. Specifically, this would apply to employers with more than 15 workers.…

  Federal Drive

  June 12, 2009