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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, 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, 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.

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

​In this week’s benefits news for Feds, prospects for a raise improve (but don’t make plans to spend it yet), very little is happening on the many proposed changes to your retirement benefits, and we really need to eliminate the cliché about Social Security and the 3rd rail. Let’s get started.

Weekend Reading On Your Federal Benefits

Weekend Reading On Your Federal Benefits

In this week’s Federal benefits news, Ted wants your name on his ‘non-essential’ list, the TSP has been getting a lot of calls lately, recent TSP fund performance provides some valuable lessons, and I answer the question ‘What Do Federal Executive Boards Do?”. Let’s get started.

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

Weekend Reading on Your Federal Benefits

In this week’s Federal benefits news, we ask why we should care that budget talks are still underway, we get schooled on locality pay and how it's determined, and hear of early legislation to provide a pay raise for 2019. And, is OPM’s Retirement Processing Center preparing for a storm of retirements? Let’s get started.