New Dental and Vision Coverage will be available under FEDVIP in 2021- first time since 2013 that new carriers have been added Every seven years, OPM is required to open the Federal Employee Dental and Vision Insurance Program (FEDVIP) to ... Read More

A Mid-Career Review of Your TSP with Ed Zurndorfer and Dan Sipe FedLife Podcast (Ep. 32): Mid-Career Tips for TSP As a defined contribution plan, a TSP gives back what you put into it throughout your career in federal services. ... Read More

The Annual Cyber-Blitz event was originally designed for the Army to test emerging tech- but in the past 2 years has matured in a Multi-Domain operation Cybersecurity, including the rapidly growing field of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), has become a much ... Read More

STWS Advisor, Jennifer Meyer, writes about OPM’s recent guidance on annual leave for feds On August 10, 2020, OPM issued an interim rule to allow some federal employees to carry forward more than the traditional 240 hours (30 days) of ... Read More

Edward A. Zurndorfer- Every federal employee needs an estate plan. Some employees have been working in federal service for many years. They have young families or other relatives who depend on them but yet these employees have no formal estate ... Read More

Paid Parental Leave Available for Federal Government Workers as of October 1, 2020 The Federal Employee Paid Leave Act (FEPLA), which was signed into law by President Trump last December gives federal workers up to 12 weeks of paid time ... Read More

Although not included in the US Cyber Command Mission Force at the DoD, the new Space Force looks to build cybersecurity component The US Cyber Command Mission is an apparatus of the Department of Defense (DoD). The Airforce, Coast Guard, ... Read More

OPM clarifies parental leave rules, including eligibility for certain agencies and their employees. Paid parental leave for federal employees, which goes into effect on October 1st of this year, is a welcomed new benefit to many workers on the government’s ... Read More

Is it Tax Season Yet? – Part 2 with Ed Zurndorfer and Dan Sipe for the FEDLIFE Tax Season Special FedLife Podcast (ep. 31): Is It Tax Season Yet? (Tax Planning for Feds, part 2) The IRS recently published their ... Read More

Edward A. Zurndorfer– The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) is an extremely important part of a federal employee’s retirement, especially employees covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). Employees are therefore encouraged to evaluate their TSP accounts throughout their federal ... Read More