Retirement

  • Joan Melanson, director of program promotion for Long Term Care Partners, joins host Mike Causey to discuss why feds should enroll in the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program. April 29, 2015

    April 29, 2015
  • Sixty-five percent of federal employees who are eligible retire choose to stay on the job, according to a Federal News Radio survey. The workforce is growing older, but holding off on retirement actually makes financial sense for many employees. As part of our special report, The Reverse Retirement Wave: Planning for a Workforce that\'s Aging in Place, Federal News Radio\'s Sean McCalley talked to Kim Weaver, the director of external affairs for the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. She\'s also putting off her last day to work and explains the financial reasons why many others do the same.

    April 29, 2015
  • For many federal employees, retiring well after they become eligible makes more sense than retiring the minute they reach that benchmark. As part of Federal News Radio\'s special report, The Reverse Retirement Wave, Kim Weaver, the director of External Affairs for the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, explains her decision to hold off on jumping straight into life after federal service.

    April 29, 2015
  • When young federal employees reach the mid-to-upper echelons of their government careers quickly, they often question whether there is room to move up. As part of our special report, The Reverse Retirement Wave, Federal News Radio examines a mentoring program created by Young Government Leaders and the Senior Executives Association to help aspiring leaders develop long-term federal careers.

    April 29, 2015
  • The so-called \"retirement wave\" isn\'t coming. But a dramatically different workforce challenge is coming fast.

    April 28, 2015
  • Agencies\' succession and next-generation training plans are unfocused, thanks to hiring freezes and budget cuts. Mission-critical projects pop up, but departments lack the workforce expertise to see them through when long-time federal employees retire. In part 2 of our special report, The Reverse Retirement Wave, we examine how some agencies are turning to reemployed annuitants for help navigating the rough waters.

    April 28, 2015
  • The retirement tsunami has long been the \"boogeyman\" of federal HR managers -- that baby boomers would be leaving the civil service in droves as they became eligible for retirement. An exclusive Federal News Radio survey reveals that something else may be going on. In part 1 of our special report, The Reverse Retirement Wave, we explore why federal employees are opting to stay on the job longer even though they are eligible to retire.

    April 28, 2015
  • Participants in the Thrift Savings Plan might not like to hear their accounts don\'t have all the recommended cybersecurity protections they need. But the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board is taking its insider threat security development so seriously, it\'s putting its own cybersecurity testers through the ringer.

    April 23, 2015
  • Feds beware. Everything old -- whether it\'s good or bad -- can be new again, warns Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.

    April 23, 2015
  • The chief accountant for the Labor Department\'s Employee Benefits Security Administration says the Thrift Savings Plan board lags in doing security tests on the TSP\'s network. Kim Weaver is Director of External Affairs at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. On In Depth with Francis Rose, she said the Board isn\'t avoiding doing the tests, and there are a couple of kinds of tests the Board will run.

    April 21, 2015
  • If there were an endangered species list for occupations, more than 300,000 federal workers would be on it. Senior correspondent Mike Causey has tracked them down.

    April 21, 2015
  • Many retirees with Thrift Savings Plan accounts wonder why they can\'t continue to invest in it. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has the answer.

    April 17, 2015
  • Joan Melanson, director of program promotion for Long Term Care Partners, joins host Mike Causey to discuss why feds should enroll in the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program. April 15, 2015

    April 15, 2015
  • Death and taxes are inevitable and not particularly fun to contemplate. But have you given any thought to long-term care? asks Senior Correspondent Mike Causey. That can be scary too.

    April 15, 2015