Retirement
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Have you had the long term care insurance talk with your spouse or significant other, or your kids? How about with yourself, can you handle a reality check?
January 15, 2020 -
Thanks to the booming stock market the number of federal-postal workers with $1 million or more Thrift Savings Plan accounts jumped to 49,620 at the end of 2019.
January 14, 2020 -
Many people decided to ride out the Great Recession so they could miss the downside and return to the TSP's C, S and I stock funds when things got better. Eleven years later, some still haven’t returned.
January 13, 2020 -
For many January is a hope-springs-eternal transition time. But there are things members of the federal family can, and should, be doing that will save money.
January 10, 2020 -
Just like the year before, December saw a drop in the number of federal retirement claims received by the Office of Personnel Management compared to the previous month.
January 09, 2020 -
While your income will likely go down in retirement, moving to a more tax-friendly state could increase the cash value of your annuity.
January 08, 2020 -
Mike Causey asked Abraham Grungold, a 34-year civil servant, why so many TSP investors have account balances that are so relatively small?
January 07, 2020 -
One longtime reader says feds should be aware of their full retirement age (FRA) and what it means to them.
January 06, 2020 -
Federal workers this month are getting a 3.1% total pay and federal-postal retirees are getting a 1.6% cost of living adjustment.
January 03, 2020 -
To protect their annuities from the ups and downs of the stock market, many active and most retired federal-postal workers have a major chunk of their Thrift Savings Plan account in the Treasury securities G fund.
January 02, 2020 -
Ask yourself if, when you start tapping your TSP you’ll be glad you invested pre-tax, or do you wish you had taken the Roth option?
December 31, 2019 -
Lots of people who live in high tax states relocate for retirement.
December 27, 2019 -
Just about everybody knows the stock market is long overdue for a correction of 20% or more — maybe a lot more.
December 23, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Thrift Savings Plan wants to change the rate it currently uses to calculate some annual cost of living adjustments.
December 20, 2019 -
White collar federal civil servants are on track to get a 3.1% pay raise next year — the largest in a decade for 1.2 million civil servants.
December 20, 2019