Roth IRAs and Roth TSP accounts are different types of retirement savings vehicles with different rules you need to know about. UPCOMING TSP WEBINAR FedLife Podcast (ep. 104): 5-Year Rules for Roth Accounts Want to make tax-free, penalty-free withdrawals from ... Read More

If you’re retired and collecting a FERS pension and decide to return to federal service, here are the two situations in which your FERS annuity will stop. To be eligible for a disability retirement under FERS, you must have at ... Read More

FEGLI Participants Can Convert Their FEGLI Coverage to An Individual Life Insurance Policy This is the fourth of four FEDZONE columns during September to help mark the month of September as “Life Insurance Awareness Month (LIAM), as designated by the ... Read More

Furloughs, federal benefits, and an update on the annual pay raise for feds. At the time of this writing, the impending government shutdown isn’t official but the likelihood is increasing by the second. The chance of a stop-gap going through ... Read More

Dan’s heated about shutdowns and the impact it could have on Feds. Will the End Shutdowns Act change that? Plus, a look at TSP performance and 2024 HSA Contribution limits. The Fed15 Podcast (Ep. 15): Shutdowns and UFOs Shutdowns make ... Read More

Kicking off a series on the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program. In this introductory article, we summarize the General Overview of OPM’s FEHB Handbook. OPM’s FEHB Handbook is a dense digital document that details all the technicalities around health ... Read More

This month’s quiz focuses on the USPS, health benefits, and the upcoming federal pay raise. FEHB & MEDICARE WEBINAR [ays_quiz id=”66″] **Written by Benjamin Derge, Financial Planner, ChFEBC℠ The information has been obtained from sources considered reliable but we do ... Read More

Breaking down what FEGLI assignment is and how it works. This is the third of four FEDZONE columns during September that are being presented to help mark the month of September as “Life Insurance Awareness Month” (LIAM) as designated in ... Read More

Recent news from around the federal landscape: Senator accuses feds of fraud, firefighters threaten to quit over ‘pay cliff,’ and CISA approves recommendations for National Cyber Alert System. In this week’s roundup of news from around the government, we’re going ... Read More

Should I Stay or Should I Go? The 3rd article in our series on the thrift savings plan (TSP). Should you stay or go? Hi again. Time to dive into volume 3 of our 4-part series covering the topic of ... Read More