Retirement
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Thrift Savings Plan participants will soon have access to additional lifecycle funds that will more closely align to their specific retirement dates.
June 26, 2019 -
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. No one ever said marriage was simple. For federal employees getting set to retire, having a spouse…
June 26, 2019 -
While Mike Causey is on vacation he asked readers to fill in the space with guest columns for some fresh material and different viewpoints.
June 24, 2019 -
September's new Thrift Savings Plan withdrawal options should keep many more investors in the TSP in future. Here's an FAQ on the changes.
June 20, 2019 -
Many long-time government workers and retirees are worth more dead than alive due to the variety of wealth they accumulate over a lifetime.
June 19, 2019 -
The Office of Personnel Management lacks a clear vision and a specific IT strategy to modernize its retirement claims process, the Government Accountability Office argued. OPM, however, attributes its challenges to a lack of funding, leadership and staffing challenges.
June 18, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week directing federal agencies to cut at least one-third of all federal advisory committees.
June 18, 2019 -
With half the legislative year over and Democrats running the House while political eyes focus on 2020 races, the retirement plan looks safe for now.
June 18, 2019 -
Despite a decade of mostly good-to-excellent returns in the stock-indexed C, S and I funds, most of the money feds have invested in their in-house 401(k) plan is in the fund which typically had the lowest returns.
June 11, 2019 -
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's inspector general found a third of its inspectors will be eligible to retire in 2020.
June 10, 2019 -
The federal workforce is getting noticeably older — and more workers are delaying their retirement dates. But drawing conclusions from the moving target numbers is easier said than done.
June 10, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, an arbitrator finds the Veterans Affairs Department should take down a public record of employee firings and other punishments from its website.
June 07, 2019 -
New retirement claims data from the Office of Personnel Management shows a reversal of previous trends around how fast the agency is processing cases.
June 06, 2019 -
Despite the TSP's money-saving low administrative fees many retirees want more investment options and also more freedom to get at their money.
June 04, 2019 -
When it comes to saving and investing for retirement, federal and military personnel are way ahead of their private sector counterparts.
June 03, 2019