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What can people do — either by working longer or delaying their Social Security — that will boost and maintain their standard of living when they do decide to retire?
For many feds, the money they have in their Thrift Savings Plan will provide anywhere from one-third to one-half of their income. Most know that knowing when to buy and when to sell is a crap shoot, at best.
If you had your choice, would you prefer a pay raise based on political and fiscal considerations or a cost of living adjustment based on the actual rate of inflation?
Congress may be on the way to changing two laws that offset or eliminate benefits to public employees and their survivors.
If you choose the invest-for-the-long haul course you may, as 112,000 rank-and-file federal and postal workers have done, become a TSP millionaire. But the keys are long-term investing and doing what the proven winners have already done.
The backlog of retirement claims has finally broken 30,000, or 31,307 in January, to be precise. The Office of Personnel Management reported 4,577 more claims awaiting processing last month compared to December, or a 17% increase.
While probate can be a mystifying and grim subject, it is one you should be up on. Learn how to avoid probate, or navigate through it if that is the only option.
Do you actively manage your federal Thrift Savings Plan account, or do you leave it to the pros?
Is it worth considering working longer to protect your buying power in retirement? Or is that too horrible a concept? Many will probably conclude it's worth putting it high up on their retirement planning checklist.
Aside from the securities-backed G fund, Thrift Savings Plan funds closed out the first month of 2022 with lower returns than the month before effectively clearing out any gains made over the last year.
What’s the difference between relaxing, not panicking, and sleeping at the wheel? What do feds do between now and when they plan to retire and, more importantly, when they actually start tapping their TSP accounts?
When it comes to planning your federal retirement, there is no such thing as a dumb question. Some may seem strange, off the way, but if you’ve got a question there is probably an answer you didn’t know about. Or one that surprises you.
Some new retirees suffer an unexpected and extended clash-flow problem. It can have an impact on their standard of living, which includes important stuff, like food, the electric bill and vacations. That can continue until their post-retirement income is straightened out.
Tom O’Rourke, a Washington-area tax and estate attorney and former IRS lawyer, shares his plan to allow federal employees to double their money and to save more than $1,000 in taxes at no risk.