The author outlines special retirement considerations in areas such as FERS annuity calculations, the Thrift Savings Plan, and insurance for federal employees who work in law enforcement.
• Leave a CommentThe outstanding backlog of retirement claims grew again in February according to new data from the Office of Personnel Management.
• Leave a CommentThe author discusses what he believes to be a terrific productivity tool and says he wishes he’d discovered it years ago.
• Leave a CommentLittle-known Social Security rules allow beneficiaries to receive lump-sum payments that can amount to thousands of dollars. Attractive as this may sound, such payments permanently reduce beneficiaries’ monthly benefits and should generally be taken as a last resort.
• Leave a CommentRetirees looking for financial security might want to think twice about seeking warmer environs. A new study has some states not known for the warm weather as the best places for retirees.
• Leave a CommentThe impact of sequestration budgetary limits imposed last year may never be fully known, a new study says, but one effect on federal employees is clear: it cost nearly 800,000 of them upward of $1.4 billion total in lost salary.
• Leave a CommentThe head of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday sharply accused the CIA of violating federal law and undermining the constitutional principle of congressional oversight as she detailed publicly for the first time how the agency secretly removed documents from computers used by her panel to investigate a controversial interrogation program.
• Leave a CommentIn the current economy, the retirement benefits provided by the federal government simply aren’t enough to support all retirees. The author offers some suggestions for ways to earn extra income working during retirement.
• Leave a CommentHere are seven current trends in the world of retirement, outlined from a recent study by the University of Michigan Retirement Research Center.
• Leave a CommentLax oversight at the Environmental Protection Agency allowed the organization’s employees to misuse federal charge cards for buying items such as gym memberships, meals and gift cards, according to a recent watchdog report.
• Leave a CommentThe Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would make big changes in the military justice system to deal with sexual assault.
• Leave a CommentA federal judge in San Francisco stopped the destruction Monday of millions of telephone records collected by the National Security Agency more than five years ago.
• Leave a CommentThe Transportation Security Administration has called off — for now — live tests of technology that would expand background checks on airplane passengers to include analyses of their online presences.
• Leave a CommentEdward Snowden, the man who leaked the National Security Agency data collection programs, said Monday the act of mass surveillance is “setting fire to the future of the Internet.”
• Leave a CommentBehind the plan to slash taxpayer support of commissaries is a concept Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his senior advisors have embraced that base grocery stores should operate as a business and not a benefit.
• Leave a CommentDemocrats and Republicans alike say the 113th Congress is shaping up to be the worst ever.
• Leave a CommentU.S. intelligence officials are planning a sweeping system of electronic monitoring that would tap into government, financial and other databases to scan the behavior of many of the 5 million federal employees with secret clearances.
• Leave a CommentA U.S. Postal Service employee is accused of driving a postal truck while intoxicated.
• Leave a CommentImmigration reform may be stalled in Congress, but a new Obama administration policy is extending legal status and military benefits to thousands of illegal immigrants who are the spouses, parents and children of American military members.
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