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Congress recently passed a long sought after bill which will change the rules for special category federal employees and their ability to access their TSP accounts. The author…
The Internal Revenue Service has announced the annual contribution limits for the Thrift Savings Plan and other similar retirement/pension plan contributions for 2016, most of which are unchanged…
In the third article in his series on federal retirement, FedSmith.com author Randy Silvey addresses one of the most common questions he has received from FedSmith.com users: "Should…
What is Dave Ramsey's advice about doing a TSP rollover to an IRA after retirement?
Stocks have just experienced their worst quarterly returns since 2011. TSP funds reflect this market action, and all of the TSP stock funds are down for September and…
You might think that retirement planning is what you do while you are working, and it stops once you retire. The author says that nothing could be further…
In his second article in the series, FedSmith.com author Randy Silvey addresses some of the questions he received from readers on retirement topics such as investing in the…
The author says that many federal employees are approaching financial problems as they near retirement due to a lack of planning. However, he says that with some basic…
Several federal employee advocacy groups sent a letter to Members of Congress this week asking them to oppose any legislation that would cut the interest rate of the…
I'm over 70 and planning to retire in my late 70s. Are there one or two key things I should be looking at to start planning?