The TSP Stock Funds Are On a Roll: Should You Start to Worry About Your Investment?
TSP investors are on a roll with substantial returns extending back over the past several years. Is there any reason for concern about your TSP investments?
Current news and events impacting the federal workforce, both current federal employees and federal retirees.
TSP investors are on a roll with substantial returns extending back over the past several years. Is there any reason for concern about your TSP investments?
Absolute performance standards can be permissible in a federal agency. In this case, the “zero tolerance” policy against threats in the workplace was upheld by a federal court and a federal employee is out of a job after 20 years of working for the federal government.
Sometimes being a federal official can be challenging. Here is another perspective on a story that we ran earlier this week about a federal employee who returned to work after a conviction for public indecency.
A senior executive with the Treasury Department found himself on the losing end of an appeal after his denials were called into question as a result of the agency reviewing his e-mail.
A former federal employee said the VA did not live up to the agreement when OPM disapproved her application for disability retirement.
The job summary section should focus on summarizing the job to be filled–not descriptions of how the agency is saving the world. Agencies will ultimately suffer the consequences if well-qualified potential applicants spurn the opportunity to compete for federal jobs.
An Interior Department employee who helped write a new grievance procedure was removed by a reduction in force (RIF). He ignored the new procedure he helped write and convinced a federal appeals court he had the right to appeal the RIF to the MSPB even though the law authorizing the agency’s alternative personnel system took away this right.
The National Active and Retired Federal Employee’s Association (NARFE) favors plans to speed up the arrival of full annuity checks to new retirees but is concerned about the expansion of Health Savings Accounts.
Ethical standards of government emanate from the top. What leaders say and do and what they infer from their actions and decisions sets the ethical tone. A recent decision from the MSPB will do that. Unfortunately, it lowers the ethical bar for government.
The TSP is one of the best retirement plans available compared to the 401(k) plans used by the private sector. The funds have continued to provide a substantial rate of return for investors in January and for the previous 12 months. Here are the latest return rates.