In this episode, Dan Sipe and Ed Zurndorfer discuss the key factors that should influence your refinancing decision and help you identify mortgage financing tools that best fit your financial situation. Episode 48: Key Things to Consider Before Refinancing Your ... Read More

NASA’s NEOWISE Program hunts down asteroids and has been doing so for more than a decade No-Cost Webinars for Federal Employees December will mark the 12-year anniversary of NASA’s NEOWISE Program, which is the acronym used to describe a mission ... Read More

Understanding the Social Security Government Pension Offset and How It Affects CSRS Annuitants by Ed Zurndorfer Ed Zurndorfer- The previous FEDZONE column discussed the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and how the WEP affects some federal government retirees. This ... Read More

The Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, has laid out a bold strategy for the US Postal Service’s next 10 years. Do Biden’s board nominees pose a threat?   No-Cost Webinars for Federal Employees On Thursday, April 22nd, there was a confirmation ... Read More

The First Chief-of-Staff of the DOI under Biden quickly lost her new role. At the EPA, more than 40 science advisors were purged. No-Cost Webinars for Federal Employees With the new President moving in, a lot of executive actions from ... Read More

A brief history and glance at the Office of Personnel Management Somewhat as a response to the Nixon presidency’s Watergate scandal, the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) of 1978 created the agency known as OPM. The legislation had the biggest ... Read More

Understanding the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision and How It Affects Some Federal Retirees Edward A. Zurndorfer- Social Security retirement benefits have been paid to eligible individuals for about 80 years. The Social Security program, created during the Franklin Roosevelt ... Read More

History was made with the first powered flight of an aircraft on another planet, plus Elon Musk’s Space-X Wins Big Contract to take Men to the Moon No-Cost Webinars for Federal Employees Ingenuity Makes First Flight on Mars The Perseverance ... Read More

STWS Advisor Jen Meyer provides the details of Legislation Proposed to Adjust Social Security Benefits for Feds Subjected to Windfall Elimination Provision Jennifer Meyer, CFP© No-Cost Social Security Webinar Current retirees and those turning 62 before 2023 stand to benefit ... Read More

In this episode, Dan Sipe and Ed Zurndorfer address the most common tax filing complications that feds are facing this year due to various new rules and regulations passed as a result of COVID-19. They also dive into the details ... Read More