If You Die While Still Working for Uncle Sam, What Happens to Your Benefits?
Federal retirement expert John Grobe recently wrote an article read by tens of thousands of readers entitled "What Happens to Your Federal Employee Benefits if You Die While Still Working?" Some readers had questions or wanted more information. Here are answers to some of the more frequent questions. Please read this in conjunction with the previous article on this subject.
Posted: November 20, 2008 8:19 AM | Full Story
- Leaving Government Before Retirement? What Happens To Your Benefits?
- Should You Purchase Long Term Care Insurance?
- The Federal "Five-Year Requirement" and Your Federal Health and Life Insurance
Should You Keep Your Federal Health Insurance After Retirement?
"Both my wife and I are covered by Medicare and her free state retirement health insurance plan. I also have a Blue Cross and Blue Shield federal health plan which I carried into retirement. I am thinking about dropping the BC/BS plan. I am only keeping it because if my wife dies and I am still living, I would lose her insurance coverage. My wife is 69 and I am 66. What do you suggest?"
Posted: November 20, 2008 7:38 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
- 2009 Health Insurance Rates: How Much Will Your Rate Change?
- Medicare and Federal Retirees: Part B or Not Part B?
Pushing the Federal Employee Union Agenda Under Obama
Federal employee unions are upfront about their "wish list" for changing their role and influence in the federal government. Having given money and support to candidate Obama, they see an opportunity to cash in their chips under a President Obama.
Posted: November 20, 2008 7:10 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
- Change in Government: Barack Obama's Letters to AFGE President John Gage
- Change in Government: Barack Obama's Letters to AFGE President John Gage: Part 2
- Federal Unions' Top Ten Goals for an Obama Presidency?
- Scuttling the FLRA
- Wal-Mart and FSIP’s Gift-Giving
Wanted: 300 Presidential Appointees for Federal IT Jobs
If you have an expertise in computer technology, Uncle Sam may be looking for you. The incoming Obama administration wants to fill 300 technology jobs as presidential appointees.
Posted: November 20, 2008 7:25 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
A Time Honored Bureaucratic Tradition
Political appointees who come into government often find the like working for Uncle Sam. The job may be interesting, the pay is pretty good, the benefits and excellent and there is very high job security in a career civil service job. The trick is converting into a career position. With the change in administrations, the process is in full swing.
Posted: November 20, 2008 7:21 AM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
FBI Agent Killed
An FBI agent was shot and killed near Pittsburgh, PA while trying to serve a warrant.
Posted: November 19, 2008 8:36 PM | Full Story | Discuss this Story
