Pay & Benefits

Don’t look now, but your TSP is swooning

Stocks and bonds. Both have gyrated badly in recent weeks. It’s not a fun time to be invested and yet you have to be.

TSP

Lawmakers urging expanded IVF coverage for FEHB enrollees

Open Season

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Another column on retirement. This time, I’m joining you

Federal Report

Congress again ponders updating Social Security policy for non-eligible federal retirees

Retirement

Repeal or reform? House lawmakers weigh responses to WEP, GPO

Congress

Federal Employees Health Benefits program

Stricter FEHB requirements from OPM aim to root out ineligible members

Open Season

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Since recent pay raise, fewer feds leaving TSA

Federal Newscast

One prescription for runaway Medicare costs

Pay & Benefits

Feds can still take administrative leave to get COVID-19 booster shots

Benefits

OPM retirement backlog continues improvement in processed claims for March

Retirement

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VA reviewing 4,000 positions at risk of pay downgrade

Pay

Three good reasons to save toward TSP-millionaire status

In frequent flyer plans, the more you put away in your Thrift Savings Plan, the closer you will get to having TSP-millionaire status.

TSP

TSP sees all positive returns in March

Thrift Savings Plan continues to see positive returns in March, with improvements made in the fixed income index F fund and the government securities G fund.

TSP

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2013, file photo, just cut stacks of $100 bills make their way down the line at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas. Everyone knows the tech industry is big, but it can be challenging to get your head around just how big it is. At least until you look at it from a different angle and realize that Apple makes more money in a day than 2500 average U.S. households can expect to see in a year. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Retirement planning enters era of renewed inflation

Retirement

With the era of near-zero inflation over, retirement planning has taken on new urgency, because a fixed income and rising prices don’t make a good combination.