The Senate sent the TSP Modernization Act to the president's desk this week. The bill will give Thrift Savings Plan participants more flexible options for making withdrawals from their accounts.
While none of the funds dipped far enough to post negative returns, only three funds showed growth since September.
The agency that administers the TSP said it's planning to take additional caution in validating participants' identities in light of the Equifax breach.
In today's Federal Newscast, a bill to let Thrift Savings Plan participants make more withdrawals from the TSP passes the House and heads to the Senate.
The congressional budget resolution is long, complicated and could impact your federal retirement. Federal News Radio explains how the resolution process works and how it could impact you.
The House will likely pass a budget resolution that would reform civil service pensions to reduce the federal deficit by $32 billion over 10 years.
The Thrift Savings Plan saw all but one of its funds show significant improvement in September, and recovered from a late-summer downturn.
Senior correspondent Mike Causey wants to know what, if any, of the currently proposed retirement changes will go into effect, and when.
New members who enter military service on or after Jan. 1, 2018 will get automatically enrolled into the new blended retirement system. Previously enlisted service members can choose to opt in to the new system.
The Thrift Savings Plan may have received a swift boost in July, but the returns were not nearly as fruitful in August as only two funds returned with an increase in growth
A new Congressional Budget Office study reviews a variety of possible options for the future of the federal retirement system.
Why do so many federal employees move out of TSP when they retire from the government? What should you do? Find out when benefits expert John Grobe joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn. August 9, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission has some advice for federal employees and retirees to protect themselves from future schemes.
This week on “Your Turn," financial planner Arthur Stein tells feds and retirees what, if anything, they should be doing now with their Thrift Savings Plan accounts. August 2, 2017
After a brief downturn earlier this summer, the Thrift Savings Plan rebounded in July, with all of the funds posting positive returns. All of the retirement funds, with the exception of one outlier, also posted higher returns than they had in June.