Retirement
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Thomas Brandt, the chief risk officer at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, said the upcoming Association of Federal Enterprise Risk Management summit and survey will provide the latest snapshot on how agencies are doing in managing and mitigating risks.
August 22, 2023 -
For the first time since January, the Office of Personnel Management's backlog of retirement claims increased in July.
August 11, 2023 -
You or someone you know invested time and energy into building skills as a federal employee. Give yourself or a loved one the gift of NARFE today and enjoy the assurance of cushion of a benefits, resource and advocacy partner!
August 09, 2023 -
For Thrift Savings Plan investors, 2023, so far, has brought a partial climb back out of the depths of 2022. It's a good time to separate the patient investors over here, and the would-be market-timers over there.
July 27, 2023 -
‘As easy as possible’: OPM’s new tutorials aim to help retiring feds and improve customer experienceNew video tutorials from the Office of Personnel Management lay out, step by step, a couple of key items on the federal retirement to-do list.
July 26, 2023 -
The Office of Personnel Management’s retirement claims backlog is the lowest it has been since December 2017.
July 06, 2023 -
Mark Borkowski (left), the chief acquisition officer and assistant commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection directorate in the Homeland Security Department, will leaver federal service on June 30.
June 07, 2023 -
The Office of Personnel Management's backlog of retirement claims dropped by 2,259 claims in May.
June 07, 2023 -
Low-risk investments generally have low returns. By law, the Postal Service must invest retiree assets in U.S. Treasury securities. The Office of Inspector General took a look at how much USPS would have had now, with a stock-and-bond mix.
May 30, 2023 -
The Office of Personnel Management took a step to address more immediate concerns from retiring federal employees, ahead of the agency’s long-term efforts to modernize retirement services.
May 22, 2023 -
Guy Cavallo, the chief information officer for OPM, said the initial focus of the new retirement services system is on new retirees and starting them off in a digital format.
May 18, 2023 -
The Office of Personnel Management processed nearly 2,000 more retirement claims in April than it did in March, bringing its inventory backlog down to 20,384.
May 16, 2023 -
Federal retirement tends to stand like a three-legged stool: the FERS annuity, the Thrift Savings Plan and Social Security. But a fourth leg could make for an even sturdier retirement. Good old fashioned Savings Bonds are another instrument federal employees can invest in for their personal savings.
May 04, 2023 -
It varies with the stock market, but about 1% of Thrift Savings Plans have more than a million dollars in them. Most so-called TSP millionaires have been working for decades.
April 27, 2023 -
Many retired federal employees feel they are being unfairly denied benefits, due to the Social Security provisions known as the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). We know how those retirees feel, thanks to a recent survey conducted by the office of Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.), who plans to use the survey results to push through legislation that would get rid of the WEP and GPO.
April 17, 2023