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Consumer prices are going up and up, which is a good sign if you're hoping for a high cost of living adjustment next January.
Uncertainty over the size of the pay raise vs. the COLA is causing many feds to rethink their proposed retirement date.
It is possible to work for Uncle Sam long enough to get and qualify for benefits and an annuity, but still leave government earlier.
Despite a deadly worldwide pandemic, the number of active and retired feds with million-dollar-plus Thrift Savings Plan accounts more than doubled in the last year.
Working slightly longer than you planned can have a big time payoff. And it’s particularly true for federal workers.
While any pay raise is obviously better than nothing, bigger is better when it comes to the retirement part of life.
If reading or hearing the news has become more depressing each year, there is good news for the federal family. Finally.
Federal, military and Social Security retirees are in line for a cost of living adjustment that could be their biggest in more than a decade.
When it comes to a comfortable annuity for life, no matter how high prices go, not all feds are treated equally.
With five months left to go in the cost of living countdown, federal, military and Social Security retirees are looking at a 3% increase in benefits beginning in January.
While it is virtually impossible for a federal or postal retiree to run out of money, it is possible to run dangerously low — even with an annuity indexed in whole, or part to inflation.
Picking the right time to retire - day and month, not just year - could make a huge difference.
The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), created by Congress, have made monthly raids on the Social Security benefits of millions of retired civil servants for decades.
Once again, there are dueling agendas to eliminate or offset the Windfall Elimination Provision, a pesky nuance that reduces Social Security benefits for some federal retirees.