Keeping Perspective: The TSP and Your Retirement Future
Congress is considering changes to your TSP. How should this impact your retirement investment decisions?
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Congress is considering changes to your TSP. How should this impact your retirement investment decisions?
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What is the current likelihood of a COLA increase in 2011? The prospects aren’t looking good. Here’s why.
Managers are responsible for developing their employees in many ways. Here’s how a manager can help employees become better prepared for retirement.
FERS employees who retire prior to age 62 are entitled to an annuity supplement, either immediately or upon attaining the MRA (Minimum Required Age). Some believe the supplement can equal, or even exceed, the amount of the annuity itself. Can this be true?
Your expenses in retirement are higher now than they were last year. Does this mean federal retirees get a larger retirement check next year?
When you retire, you will be faced with many choices as to what to do with your Thrift Savings Plan investments. If a financial advisor is suggesting that you roll your money into an IRA, ask why. Is it because the IRA is really a better investment, or is it that he/she will earn a fee from the transaction?
Will you get a COLA as a federal retiree in 2011? Will federal employees get a pay raise in 2011? How much will your health insurance premium go up in 2011?
Is there really an ongoing “tidal wave†of retirements? If yes, is there evidence for it? If evidence shows there is no tidal wave, then why would a Federal agency foster such an impression?
Federal employees who have had military service after January 1, 1957 have the opportunity to make a deposit and have that military time count for both their CSRS or FERS retirement and for Social Security. In most instances it makes a great deal of sense to buy the military time, but there are exceptions.