Retirement
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Imagine the financial and emotional hangover you would have today if some, most or all of your retirement nest egg had been invested in the Thrift Savings Plan's T Fund? That's "T" for technical stocks.
July 30, 2018 -
Is there a federal pay raise in your future? And what's the status of legislation to reform the Federal Employees Retirement System? Find out when Federal News Radio reporter Nicole Ogrysko joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn. July 25, 2018
July 25, 2018 -
There's talk that some kind of raise, either 1.9 percent by some counts or 3 percent as proposed by congressional friends of feds, could be worked out via the appropriation process after the midterm election. If so, it would be exactly the same raise nonpostal feds got last January.
July 24, 2018 -
Are the threats to FERS and CSRS real? IF so, what is being done to protect them? Find out when NARFE's Jessica Klement, Barb Sido, and Jennifer Bialek join host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn to explain why the two largest white-collar federal unions are challenging provisions in two of the three executive orders issued by President Donald Trump. July 18, 2018
July 18, 2018 -
The two largest white-collar federal unions are challenging provisions in two of the three executive orders President Donald Trump issued in late May. And it could be serious.
July 18, 2018 -
Do you remember what your work-wise, midsummer nightmares were this time last year? Even if you were on vacation this time last year, chances are you were thankful that the very real shutdown threatened for April didn’t materialize.
July 17, 2018 -
Financial planner Arthur Stein says that “declines are part of the market cycle.” In fact, he counted a historical average of 5 percent declines about three times a year.
July 15, 2018 -
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 -
According to the Office of Personnel Management's monthly retirement report, June saw 23.2 percent more federal retirement claims than May and a roughly 53 percent more claims year over year.
July 09, 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 -
Guest columnist Nancy Crosby writes that talk of cuts to federal retirement benefits is nothing new, but the rumored tsunami of retirement has been reduced to a slow and steady leak of attrition.
July 03, 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