Retirement
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If you're the belt and suspenders type, listen up. Thanks to the magic of Medicare, federal employees have the option of getting extra coverage after they retire. Federal benefits expert Tammy Flanagan, senior benefits director for the National Institute of Transition Planning, explains to Federal Drive with Tom Temin some of the fine points of combining Medicare with your federal employee health benefits plan.
November 23, 2015 -
A potential health and retirement roadblock is fast approaching that Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says will test the road warrior skills of government workers and retirees.
November 23, 2015 -
Walton Francis, expert and adviser on federal health insurance joined Federal News Radio Senior Correspondent Mike Causey for an online chat about navigating FEHBP’s increases and plan eliminations for 2016.
November 19, 2015 -
December and January are the most popular retirement months for federal workers. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says if you're planning on pulling the plug, let him know.
November 19, 2015 -
Federal retirement information exists in a black hole. Little information escapes to inform and prepare federal employees about their retirement benefits. That's the claim from one expert who recently surveyed feds on what they know about their retirement plans. Randy Silvey, a federal retirement specialist and owner of Silverlight Financial, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what he called the disturbing if not anticipated results of the survey.
November 11, 2015 Bob Tobias, a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at American University, counts down the week's top federal stories with Francis Rose.
November 06, 2015-
After two months of posting negative returns, the Thrift Savings Plan funds all posted positive numbers for the month of October.
November 06, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management has new metrics for reporting its progress on monthly retirement claims. OPM also made a sizable dent in its retirement backlog in October, which dropped by about 2,000 cases.
November 05, 2015 -
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board approved changes in how the TSP allocates investments in its lifecycle funds.
October 28, 2015 -
Just weeks after new federal employees began placing their retirement savings into Lifecycle Funds by default, the board that governs the plans is considering changing how it allocates investments in the funds. Kim Weaver, director of external affairs at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, the panel that oversees the TSP, talked to In Depth with Francis Rose about the L funds, and some of the changes the board is looking at.
October 28, 2015 Katie Maddocks with the Federal Managers Association joins host Mike Causey to talk about the chances of a government shutdown, and legislation pending in Congress that would affect federal workers. October 28, 2015
October 27, 2015-
If you really like your teeth and you plan to retire from your government job some day, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has some advice for you and your choppers.
October 27, 2015 -
The limit to how much federal employees can contribute to their Thrift Savings Plan will remain at the same level for Fiscal Year 2016, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
October 26, 2015 -
Retirement savings, REAL IDs and an Oval Office rejection claimed recent headlines at Federal News Radio. Here's a look at some of the stories that caught the eye of our readers.
October 26, 2015 -
More than 70 million federal and Social Security retirees get COLAs from the government, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says this year's COLA fails the taste and smell test.
October 26, 2015