Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

​In this week’s benefits news for Feds, you can read the long version of why some retirement dates are better than others,  get a warning that you don’t have much time left to use your annual leave, find out your options during a disability, and hear the story of a group of retired Law Enforcement Officers who are very unhappy. Let’s get started.

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

​In this week’s benefits news for Feds, OPM assumes you won’t be getting a raise next year, there could be big changes at OPM soon, the average retirement age has been creeping up, and deciding when to claim your Social Security check is not easy. Let’s get started.

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

​In this week’s benefits news for Feds, OPM’s Director is brutally removed, retirees will get the largest COLA in seven years, we’ll talk about protecting yourself and your family from a disability, and quiz you to see if you can tell the truth from fiction when it comes to retirement. Let’s go.

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

​In this week’s benefits news for Feds, we get the latest update on your 2019 pay raise, answer five questions about the new TSP withdrawal options, hope for relief from the required minimum distribution rule, and ask ‘Will Artificial Intelligence replace many Federal workers?’ Let’s go.

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

​In this week’s benefits news for Feds, a shutdown-averting bill is awaiting the President’s signature, not many Feds are phasing into retirement these days, next year’s health care premiums shouldn’t increase as much as usual, and there are three things you should do to prepare for Open Season. 3-2-1. Let’s go.

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

​In this week’s benefits news for Feds, we want to know if an agency can force us to relocate, we look at the best dates to retire next year, keep up with big plans for changes to your Thrift Savings Plan, and learn about the TSP’s new ‘glide path’. Huh? Let’s get started.

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

In this week’s benefits news for Feds, the White House wavers on the pay freeze, there are good reasons why agencies shouldn’t quietly settle cases with bad employees, there is power in your TSP savings, and man it’s hard to calculate your FERS Special Retirement Supplement. We’d better get started.

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

In this week’s benefits news for Feds, we regret to learn that the pay freeze is on, we hear about some no-cost investment funds that are supposedly challenging the TSP’s low-expense leadership, and ask the rather shocking question “Should We Kill FERS?”. Yikes. Let’s get started.