Federal News Network reporter Drew Friedman fills in again for Tom this week. Most federal employees see retirement as a three-legged stool, you have the FERS annuity, the Thrift Savings Plan and Social Security. But could a…
May 10, 2023
In this week’s episode, Federal News Network reporter Drew Friedman fills in for Tom Temin. If you’ve been teleworking for the past few years, you may be asking yourself, is that about to change? And if…
May 3, 2023
It’s an old story, but an enduring one. Thousands of retired federal employees from the Civil Service Retirement System days feel they are being unfairly denied benefits. That’s because of the Social Security provisions known as the Windfall…
April 27, 2023
We start with a review of the Thrift Savings Plan’s first quarter results. Investments can change seemingly as fast as the weather. Something plan holders have learned, or re-learned, pretty dramatically over the last couple of…
April 19, 2023
Welcome to the show. The past few days have seen positive developments on several matters affecting federal employees, including health benefits for Postal Service people and gathering support for restoration of Social Security benefits to…
April 12, 2023
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regularly issues results of studies on workplace trends related to discrimination claims and other matters. One recent report concerned the federal workforce. Specifically, use of alternate dispute resolution. Federal News Network’s…
April 12, 2023
This week we look at what had been promising about the economy as it relates to your retirement. And then the financial whirlwind still swirling around that’s sort of flattened near-term expectations. We start with…
April 12, 2023
The IRS has had a Senate-confirmed commissioner for a few weeks now. Danny Werfel has a lot to do. He’ll need every employee in the agency to get anything significant done. One crucial group sometimes…
March 23, 2023
In today’s episode, we spoke with Kevin Moss, editor of health plans for Consumers’ Checkbook about changes in Medicare Part D, and how they might affect federal employees’ health plans. Plus, an excerpt from and interview…
March 15, 2023
You may have heard that the Government Accountability Office is looking into the project leading to the new web site for the Thrift Savings Plan. We won’t know what GAO comes up with until next…
March 9, 2023
A new month, and always a good time to review your savings and investment strategy. The markets continue to swoon. So it’s also a good time to remind yourself that long term, if you stick to a…
March 2, 2023
On today’s episode, our coverage of a union rally last week near the Capitol to support a bill to give federal employees an 8.7% raise next year. Also, Back in 2016, Congress passed and President Obama signed into…
February 22, 2023
Today we’ve got news for federal retirees, so listen up. Lawmakers are trying to change a couple things about the annual cost-of-living adjustments—or COLAs. They’ve reintroduced bills to get it done. One would give FERS retirees…
February 16, 2023
With the stock market continuing to fluctuate wildly, many feds still wonder what is a wise retirement investment strategy. Federal employees and retirees continue to deal with the web site of the Thrift Savings Plan and it difficult…
February 8, 2023
