For Your Benefit

Host Bob Leins and presenters from the National Institute of Transition Planning, the federal leader in retirement planning seminars focus on a specific area of retirement planning from financial security, taxes, federal benefits and estate planning, to life after retirement.


Latest Podcasts / Episodes

  • January 23, 2023 on ForYourBenefit, our host Bob Leins, CPA®, welcomes Joe Sullender, CFP®. It’s the beginning of a new year. Are you on target to reach your financial goals? Today’s discussion will focus on key concepts including: Building an…
    January 23, 2023
  • January 16, 2023 on ForYourBenefit, host Bob Leins, CPA® welcomes Karen Schaeffer, CFP®. There is certainly a lot to talk about on the topic of TSP. Karen will discuss the following: The new terminology for making investment changes The importance…
    January 16, 2023
  • January 9, 2023 on ForYourBenefit, our host Bob Leins, CPA®, welcomes Herb Casey, Federal Benefits Specialist, to provide information on benefit changes for 2023. Largest Federal retiree COLA in nearly four decades Social Security: COLA,…
    January 9, 2023
  • January 9, 2023 on ForYourBenefit, our host Bob Leins, CPA®, welcomes Herb Casey, Federal Benefits Specialist, to provide information on benefit changes for 2023. Largest Federal retiree COLA in nearly four decades Social Security: COLA,…
    January 9, 2023
  • Want to make the most of the new year? Guest Karen Schaeffer, CFP® will talk about how to keep those New Year’s resolutions about money. Whether it’s paying off debt, buying a house, staying ahead…
    January 3, 2023
  • December 19, 2022 on ForYourBenefit, our host Bob Leins, CPA®, welcomes Joe Sullender, CFP® to talk about Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs). Basics of RMDs RMDs from inherited IRAs Year-end planning and strategies For questions or…
    December 19, 2022
  • December 12, 2022 on ForYourBenefit, our host Bob Leins, CPA®, welcomes M. Shane Canfield, CEO, WAEPA. As the year comes to a close, it is a time to reflect and to look ahead. Shane will…
    December 12, 2022
  • Dec. 5, 2022, on ForYourBenefit, our host Bob Leins, CPA®, welcomes Patti Hudson, Lifetime Health and Fitness Expert. What is work/life balance? Does it exist? If it does, how do we achieve it? Work/life balance…
    December 5, 2022
  • November 28, 2022 on ForYourBenefit, our host Bob Leins, CPA®, welcomes Tammy Flanagan, Senior Benefits Director NITP, and Karen Schaeffer, CFP®. Karen and Tammy will discuss the retirement topics that cross the line. The line…
    November 28, 2022
  • November 21, 2022 on ForYourBenefit, our hosts Bob Leins, CPA®, and Tammy Flanagan, Senior Benefits Director NITP, welcome insurance expert and author Walton Francis and his colleague Kevin Moss to talk about FEHBP Open Season.…
    November 21, 2022
  • November 14, 2022 on ForYourBenefit, host Bob Leins, CPA® welcomes Marc Levine, Esquire, and Lacey Yegen, Esquire. With the recession in mind, why is it important to have estate planning documents in place? Are they…
    November 14, 2022
  • November 7, 2022 on ForYourBenefit, host Bob Leins, CPA® welcomes Karen Schaeffer, CFP®, and Kaitlin Schaeffer Yardley, CFP®.  There is certainly a lot to talk about on the topic of TSP.  Join our guests as…
    November 7, 2022
  • October 31, 2022 on ForYourBenefit, host Bob Leins, CPA® and co-host Ray Kirk, Ph.D., Federal Benefits Specialist, NITP, welcome Jay Fritz, Program Manager, Outreach & Program Services, Healthcare and Insurance, U.S. Office of Personnel Management.…
    October 31, 2022
  • October 24, 2022 on ForYourBenefit, host Bob Leins, CPA® and co-host Tammy Flanagan, Senior Benefits Director at NITP, Inc. welcome back Paula S. Jakub, RHU; CEO at The American Foreign Service Protective Association, sponsor of…
    October 24, 2022