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Cost-of-Living Adj.: How COLAs Work for CSRS and CSRS-Offset Annuitants

04/29/2024
Understanding Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs) – Part I – How COLAs Work for CSRS and CSRS-Offset...

FEHB Highlights: Keeping Health Insurance When in LWOP Status

04/18/2024
Can you keep FEHB when in LWOP status? Information for federal employees. This article is...

Avoid These Missteps When Filling Out Your Federal Retirement Package

04/17/2024
6 traps you’ll want to dodge before submitting your retirement packet to OPM. Plus –...
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FEHB Highlights: Enrolling in Federal Employee Health Plans

04/08/2024
Everything feds need to know about enrolling in the federal employee health benefits (FEHB) program...

2025 Social Security COLA

04/03/2024
After an 8.7% COLA in 2023 and a 3.2% adjustment in 2024, the downward trend...

Top 5 Points to Consider as Your Federal Retirement Date Approaches

03/27/2024
The top 5 things that federal employees should keep in mind as their retirement date...

Retirement Federal Financial Planning: 5 Things You Need

03/21/2024
Financial Planning for Federal Employees – Jen Meyer goes over the Top 5 things to...

Tax Smart Ways to Pay for Your Children’s Education – Part I

03/18/2024
A Summary of the Tax-Smart Ways to Help Pay a Child’s Education Costs – Part...

How Does the TSP Matching Contribution Work?

03/06/2024
It’s a match – Understanding TSP Contributions and Automatic Enrollment, including a TSP matching contribution...

Federal Employee and Retiree Milestones for Federal Income Taxes

03/01/2024
Age Milestones for Federal Employees and Retirees with Respect to Federal Income Taxes When it...

Understanding FERS Contribution

02/28/2024
Who is funding FERS? In October of last year, there were slight changes to the...

There is Still Time for Employees to Make 2023 IRA Contributions

02/28/2024
Learn the advantages of making 2023 IRA contributions before the April deadline. Although the December...

Customer Service Nightmare Looming Over the SSA

02/21/2024
The Social Security Administration Faces a Customer Service Crisis as Record Number of Americans Reach...

FERS Annuity Supplement Is No Substitute for the Enhanced FERS Annuity

02/12/2024
Ed dives deep into why waiting until 62 to retire might be the best option...

FEGLI After Retirement: Here’s the One Thing to Avoid

02/01/2024
A basic overview of FEGLI and how it works- Understanding what happens to FEGLI after...

Excess Elective Deferrals When Making Retirement Contributions

01/25/2024
Employees Who Contributed Both to the TSP and to Another Tax-Deferred Retirement Plan During 2023...

COLA for FECA at 3.3% for 2024 & More Federal News

01/22/2024
A round-up of news from around the federal government: COLA for FECA recipients. And NASA...

Non-Appropriated Fund Service and Retirement

01/18/2024
How Non-appropriated Fund (NAF) Service Affects Civil Service Retirement A Nonappropriated Fund (NAF) employee is an...

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