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Calculations about whether to leave federal service, for many federal career people, tend to juggle the financial considerations. What's the best month, the best health plan, the optimal TSP withdrawal strategy if you're about to retire?
If you have a simple exit strategy that provides the best deal for you in retirement, there is a good chance it may be wrong. Or at least not very simple.
Life’s a series of choices. Some easier and more important than others. Like when are you gonna retire? Does it really matter?
Picking the “best” of the 50 states, tax-wise, can mean hundreds of thousands extra dollars that will be yours, not the Great State of Whatever, for as long as you are retired.
Many investors know the conventional thing to do, when times are good. But when things go south, which they do regularly, the fight-or-flight instinct kicks in. Times like now.
Congress has a lot on its plate to try to avoid a continuing resolution, including a host of appropriations bills.
Worried about how you will survive the next recession? While you’re at it, maybe you should worry about the recession-after-next. And the one that follows it.
IG offices now have the ability to use a new tagging option when publishing documents to Oversight.gov, to flag reports related to DEIA issues.
With so many feds retirement-eligible, many are likely crunching the numbers to decide if it is better to be retired from government than working for it. Both financially and emotionally.
Probate can be a lengthy and expensive process that takes months, even years in some cases, to determine how your estate will be split up. Learn what you need to legally protect your family/friends and be sure they get what you want them to get.
Also in today's Federal Newscast, the Marine Mammal Commission has its ethics called into question, and GAO is concerned the Navy is trying to impede Congressional oversight.
Retiring from the federal government isn’t rocket science. And for some people it's even more complicated and baffling. So it helps to have a checklist to keep you on the right career path.
Average processing times continue to rise, which kept the backlog of retirements claims 29,224 in July.
Most feds under the old CSRS program are already retired. About 99% of the current workforce is under the FERS retirement plan, which has many moving parts, many options and puts you largely in the drivers seat.