Thrift Savings Plan

How you can mitigate the sequence of returns risk from minimum required distributions

If federal workers and retirees found themselves sleepwalking through the last 11 years of Wall Street’s bull market, retirement benefits specialist Tammy Flanagan, says the pandemic-driven stock-market volatility has been “a wake-up call.”

If you had $105,000 in your Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) on Valentine’s Day 2020, by St. Patrick’s Day it had dropped some $20,000, to about $85,000.

It feels instinctual to want to sell securities now, but it’s an instinct you should ignore.

The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board has launched a social science program over the past year, with the goal of sending messages and reminders to targeted groups of participants to prompt them to contribute and save more with the TSP.

In today’s Federal Newscast, Health and Human Services releases 25 ways the agency can improve how it spends taxpayer money.

A lot of people are now wondering if it’s a good time to get out of government and do something else. Jeff Neal reminds feds that an ill-informed move could land you somewhere that is worse than where you are now.

A growing number of people have moved into the TSP millionaires club. But, should all your retirement nest egg money be in the TSP? 

Things are looking good. but the possibility of yet another government shutdown remains, as today’s guest columnist Abraham Grungold points out.

Thrift Savings Plan participants will soon have access to additional lifecycle funds that will more closely align to their specific retirement dates.