Pay & Benefits
Life After Government: Financial Advice
In the last of our series on retirement issues, Karen Rutzick reports on what you need, where to get it and how much it costs.
Pay & Benefits
GOP group calls for cuts in federal retirees’ benefits to fund Katrina relief
Reductions in annuities, health benefits aimed at saving $5.2 billion over ten years.
Pay & Benefits
Playing Catch-up
Catch-up contributions give the 50-and-over crowd a backdoor to the TSP.
Pay & Benefits
Life After Government: What To Do
In the third installment of our weeklong series, Karen Rutzick looks at the many and varied post-retirement options, from consulting to antiquing.
Pay & Benefits
Dental and vision insurance pushed back until December 2006
Supplemental coverage won’t be subsidized by agencies, but OPM will use large number of employees to negotiate lower costs.
Pay & Benefits
Cost of managing TSP continues to shrink
Administrative expenses are low and getting lower.
Pay & Benefits
Life After Government: The Big Picture
In the first in a weeklong series, Karen Rutzick reports on the ever-increasing number of employees who have their eye on a retirement date--and what comes next.
Pay & Benefits
Employee share of health insurance premiums to climb 10 percent
OPM says government oversubsidized premiums in 2005.
Pay & Benefits
Travel Math
Rules for getting compensatory time off for travel are fussy and complex.
Pay & Benefits
GSA raises mileage reimbursement rate by 8 cents per mile
Federal employees will be reimbursed 48.5 cents per mile for official government travel in personal vehicles.
Pay & Benefits
Proposed bill could bring retirement equity to law officers
Officers not recognized by law receive less pay and postpone retirements.
Pay & Benefits
Life and Death Planning
Employees should get paperwork and information ready so survivors can claim their benefits when they die.
Pay & Benefits
Bush endorses 2.1 percent pay raise
Congress likely to override decision by passing legislation mandating a 3.1 percent increase.
Defense
Agencies urged to be flexible with employees who join relief efforts
Personnel flexibilities available to reward employees who pitch in during times of crisis.
Pay & Benefits
Reaping REITs' Rewards
Beyond the political disagreement, how would a REIT option affect TSP portfolios?
Pay & Benefits
Hurricane may delay married TSP participants' loans, withdrawals
Thrift board sets up mail forwarding system to handle paper forms sent to New Orleans.
Management