How is Your Federal Retirement Income Taxed?
How much money will you have to spend in retirement? In part, it depends on how much you will pay in taxes. Here is how the system works for federal retirees.
How much money will you have to spend in retirement? In part, it depends on how much you will pay in taxes. Here is how the system works for federal retirees.
An immigration official caught up in an incident where three fellow officers injured an illegal alien during a raid remains fired from his agency following review of his case in which he contended he was a whistleblower.
This Postal Service supervisor was demoted for not properly giving the union information or not scheduling required meetings. The result was grievances going to a higher level and decisions and awards in the grievants’ favor. The demotion eventually went to federal court for a final decision.
How are you coping in the current economic climate? Many federal retirees are having to “economize” in some form or other in order to maintain our standard of living. Here is the experience of one federal employee who took his money out of the Thrift Savings Plan and invested on his own.
TSP investors are setting records for putting money into the G fund. Does this mean we have reached a market bottom?
The author explains what is going on in the dismissal of the seven Bush appointees on the Federal Service Impasses Panel and asks whether the next Panel will be up to the task.
What is the link between the “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act”, and the Thrift Savings Plan? They are part of the same legislative package in the House of Representatives.
This is Title IV, entitled the “Thrift Savings Plan Enhancement” which is part of HR 1256 entitled the “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.”
The internet can spread rumors faster than a flu virus. The latest one to impact the federal workforce: accounting irregularities in the I fund and the role of a fictitious individual.
Active federal employees save about $820 a year because they are able to pay for health insurance out of pre-tax money. A bill introduced in the House would give the same benefit to federal civilian retirees as well as active duty military personnel and retirees.