Pay & Benefits
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With three months left to go in the cost-of-living adjustment countdown clock, federal/military/Social Security retirees are looking at a January inflation-catch up of 2.7 percent.
July 13, 2018 -
Are you worried about your retirement nest egg? If so, financial planner Arthur Stein has a couple of simple investment tips and he will share them when he joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn.
July 11, 2018 -
Are you a federal employee worried about your mix of TSP funds and retirement nest egg? If so, financial planner Arthur Stein has a couple of simple, ulcer-preventive tips.
July 11, 2018 -
Guest columnist Tom Trabucco reflects on his 46-year federal career and the cast of characters he met along the way, as well as how he views the current set of civil service reform proposals.
July 09, 2018 -
In Mike Causey's absence, long-time reader and IRS retiree Tony Krolik writes about his retirement and tries to quell the fears of feds worried about moving on the face of threatened benefits cuts.
July 05, 2018 -
Financial planner Arthur Stein joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn to discuss how the Thrift Savings plan is doing and what you can do to protect your investments from a market correction that many experts say is long overdue. July 3, 2018
July 02, 2018 -
Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) has offered legislation to give federal employees up to 12 weeks of paid leave for the birth, adoption or foster placement of a child.
June 29, 2018 -
Averages are tricky, especially when investing. Thrift Savings Plan investors who go by average returns must look backward. But how do you do it, and how helpful are averages?
June 27, 2018 -
In its 2019 spending proposal, the House Budget Committee wants federal employees to contribute more toward a defined benefit retirement plan, while ending the Social Security supplement for those who retire before age 62.
June 26, 2018 -
This time one year ago lobbyists who represent feds and retirees were quietly hoping that Congress would tear off only a couple of chunks from the embattled Federal Employees Retirement System. Then a funny thing happened on the way: Nothing.
June 25, 2018 -
The administration also proposes moving OPM's current retirement services and health care and insurance offices to the General Services Administration, which would be renamed the "Government Services Agency."
June 21, 2018 -
A 15-year fed describes why he thinks the advice "spread your bets" should also be applied to taxes and the TSP options, not just investing and casinos.
June 21, 2018 -
Having a secure financial future is even more likely if you know where you are now and where you are heading, as you get closer to that magic time when you could retire.
June 20, 2018 -
The Trump administration may move several functions, including federal employee health and retirement benefits programs, from the Office of Personnel Management to other agencies.
June 19, 2018 -
Causey says President Donald Trump is keeping his promises to "drain the swamp" with a crackdown on federal unions, and aims to make the federal retirement plan more costly for workers and less valuable for retirees.
June 19, 2018