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While Mike Causey is away, please enjoy this column from the archives. Back in the day working for/retiring from the government was a piece of cake. Sort of. You got a job, stuck with it 20, 30 or 40 years. Then retired under the … [Continue reading] about Are you a lifer? Learning to blend FERS and your TSP!
The General Services Administration is experiencing the federal version of the “great resignation” first hand. Over the last month, three long-time GSA executives decided to retire or leave federal service. And just in the last week, GSA CFO Gerard … [Continue reading] about Key IT acquisition, financial executives leaving GSA, HHS
While Mike Causey is away, please enjoy this column from the archives. Did your son or daughter marry the wrong person? Lots of them do, it turns out! As in really wrong. Unstable. Maybe a gambling or drug problem? Violent? … [Continue reading] about You can’t take it with you! Or can you?
To most Americans savings for retirement, the Thrift Savings Plan, Uncle’s Sam’s in-house 401k, seems like the best of all worlds. Especially for the majority of working non-feds whose companies don’t match their 401k plans, nor offer a stand-alone … [Continue reading] about COVID’s financial impact and your TSP
After a brief reprieve in November, the time to process federal retirement claims slowed again in the last month of the year. The monthly average processing time for claims in December rose to 92 days, on par with average times for August through … [Continue reading] about Retirement processing times rise again at end of 2021
