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FERS, Sick Leave and Your Retirement: How Much Is This New Benefit Worth to You in Dollars and Cents?
A bill is moving through Congress that would allow FERS employees to count unused sick leave in computing retirement benefits. Is it more beneficial to take the leave or to save it for using in computing retirement benefits? Here are a few considerations--if this bill does get passed by Congress.
Posted: April 5, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Disability Retirement and the Federal Employee
For Federal and Postal employees, disability retirement benefits exist as part of their "employment package." This is a benefit that can become very important. The process of obtaining disability retirement is not simple. Here are some basics about this employment benefit.
Posted: April 3, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Government Pension Offset, Windfall Elimination and Your Retirement Future
The Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset can impact your retirement future. Several readers have asked about the potential for repeal of these provisions because of its impact on their retirement future. Here is an update.
Posted: March 31, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
How is Your Federal Retirement Income Taxed?
How much money will you have to spend in retirement? In part, it depends on how much you will pay in taxes. Here is how the system works for federal retirees.
Posted: March 22, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
It's Back to Basics
The economic shift in our country is creating changes. This author notes that "for some of my fellow baby boomers, it may be back to the basics for a housing solution to take care of an aging parent or two....They may also be pooling assets/incomes in order to buy their next home together."
Posted: March 19, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
As the Economy Crumbles: One Federal Retiree's Feeble Attempts to Cope
How are you coping in the current economic climate? Many federal retirees are having to "economize" in some form or other in order to maintain our standard of living. Here is the experience of one federal employee who took his money out of the Thrift Savings Plan and invested on his own.
Posted: March 17, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Tobacco and the Thrift Savings Plan: What Is the Link Between Them?
What is the link between the "Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act", and the Thrift Savings Plan? They are part of the same legislative package in the House of Representatives.
Posted: March 13, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
A Bill to Save Money for Federal Retirees
Active federal employees save about $820 a year because they are able to pay for health insurance out of pre-tax money. A bill introduced in the House would give the same benefit to federal civilian retirees as well as active duty military personnel and retirees.
Posted: March 11, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
The `Federal and Military Retiree Health Care Equity Act'
HR 1203 would federal civilian annuitants as well as active duty military personnel and retirees to pay their health insurance premiums with pre-tax compensation (also known as "premium conversion").
Posted: March 11, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Have You Taken Your Minimum Required Distribution?
If you have not already taken a minimum required distribution (MRD) from your Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) or your Individual Retirement Account (IRA) for 2008, you must take it by April 1, 2009.
Posted: March 8, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
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