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Part Time FERS Retirement Benefits: How Service Impacts Your Pension

08/18/2021
How Part-Time Service Affects FERS Retirement Benefits – Part II < PART I Ed Zurndorfer- There are employees covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) who at some point during their federal service may have worked less than full-time. ... Read More
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Understanding How Part-Time Service Affects FERS Retirement – Part II

08/18/2021
How part-time service impacts federal benefits, such as TSP, FEGLI, FEHB, and Leave < PART I Ed Zurndorfer- There are employees covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) who at some point during their federal service may have worked ... Read More

Back to Class: Learn About Your Federal Benefits

08/17/2021
School is back in session. Learn about CSRS and FERS retirement benefits from Ed Zurndorfer. FERS Benefits Webinar Despite the threat currently posed by the delta variant of the COVID-19 virus, there are some things returning to normalcy still, such ... Read More
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OPM Conducts Agency Audit for Retirement Package Errors

08/16/2021
Report from OPM highlights common errors on retirement claim packages for both FERS and CSRS from October 2018 to July 2021 FERS Retirement Webinar OPM’s Retirement Services releases a monthly publication regarding common errors that are encountered on retirement package ... Read More
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Death Benefits for Beneficiaries Part III: CSRS/CSRS-Offset Annuitants

06/23/2021
< Part II Information about Spousal Survivor Benefits Upon the Death of a CSRS/CSRS-Offset Annuitant Edward A. Zurndorfer– For annuitants who were covered by the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) including CSRS Offset annuitants, there are surviving annuity benefits that ... Read More
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Want to Retire Earlier? “MRA plus 10” Retirement May Be an Option for FERS

06/14/2021
For Those FERS Employees Who Have Reached MRA and Want to Retire Earlier, “MRA +10” Retirement May Be an Option by Ed Zurndorfer “MRA+10” Retirement May Be an Option The 2019 partial federal government shutdown has prompted many employees to ... Read More
Federal Pensions

FEDLIFE PODCAST: Everything You Thought You Knew About Federal Pensions

06/11/2021
Dan Sipe and Ed Zurndorfer go into depth about everything a federal employee needs to know about preparing for retirement, spousal survivor benefits and more. FedLife Podcast, episode 51. Everything You Thought You Knew About Federal Pensions  Preparing for retirement ... Read More
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Want to Leave Federal Service? Deferred Retirement Might Be an Option

06/09/2021
From Ed Zurndorfer – For Employees Who Want to Leave Federal Service, Deferred Retirement May Perhaps Be an Option The recent partial Federal government shutdown has prompted many employees to consider retiring from federal service earlier than planned. The frustration ... Read More
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Estate Planning, Part Two: Post-Mortem

06/08/2021
What Every Individual Needs in Their Estate Plan Part II: Planning Post-Mortem < Part I: Incapacity What has happened over the past 15 months in the United States and throughout the world as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic ... Read More
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Estate Planning, Part One: Planning for Incapacity

06/03/2021
What Every Individual Needs in their Estate Plan, Part I: Planning for Incapacity Edward A. Zurndorfer What has happened over the past 15 months in the United States and throughout the world as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic ... Read More