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How Your Retirement Nest Egg Adds Up

Calculating just how much you’ll have to live on.

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10 Things You Need To Do Before Leaving Government

Be prepared before you even think about retiring.

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What You Need to Know About Taxes

A primer on how your tax situation will be different in retirement.

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A Retirement Readiness Checklist

Before the magic date arrives, you need to ask yourself some questions.

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How to Know When It’s Time to Go

Deciding when to retire from government is a more complicated process than it used to be.

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The Difference Between a Supplement and Social Security

A look at a key benefit for some FERS retirees.

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Not Exactly Getting Rich

A look at how the Windfall Elimination Provision can dramatically affect retirement income.

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When is a Windfall not a Windfall?

When it’s subject to the dreaded Windfall Elimination Provision, of course.

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How About Some Good News?

It’s not all gloom and doom in the federal retirement world.

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How to Prepare for a Retirement Storm

Take a week to get yourself ready for potential changes to federal benefits.

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Don’t Mess With the G Fund

A House proposal would fundamentally change the Thrift Savings Plan’s “safe” investment fund.

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9 Questions (and Answers) for Federal Couples

A little bit of spousal counseling.

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Leaving Government Now and Taking Retirement Later

The basics of deferred retirement.

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The Importance of Accurate Information

In some federal agencies, retirement specialists aren’t getting the training they need to effectively help employees.

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A Critical Part of Planning, By Any Estimation

It’s important that agencies provide retirement estimates to employees.

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What Happens When You Say 'I Do'

There’s a lot to think about, especially if your betrothed is also a fed.

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Three (or More) Helpings of the TSP

Yes, you can take multiple partial distributions from your investments after you retire. Here’s how.

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You’ve Invested for Retirement. Now What?

What to do with the wealth you’ve accumulated in the Thrift Savings Plan.

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Who’s Paying for Your Health Insurance?

FEHBP, TRICARE and government subsidies.

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Neither CSRS nor FERS

There are lessons for all federal employees from those in an oft-overlooked system.