Welcome to the show. The past few days have seen positive developments on several matters affecting federal employees, including health benefits for Postal Service people and gathering support for restoration of Social Security benefits to…
April 12, 2023
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regularly issues results of studies on workplace trends related to discrimination claims and other matters. One recent report concerned the federal workforce. Specifically, use of alternate dispute resolution. Federal News Network’s…
April 12, 2023
This week we look at what had been promising about the economy as it relates to your retirement. And then the financial whirlwind still swirling around that’s sort of flattened near-term expectations. We start with…
April 12, 2023
The IRS has had a Senate-confirmed commissioner for a few weeks now. Danny Werfel has a lot to do. He’ll need every employee in the agency to get anything significant done. One crucial group sometimes…
March 23, 2023
In today’s episode, we spoke with Kevin Moss, editor of health plans for Consumers’ Checkbook about changes in Medicare Part D, and how they might affect federal employees’ health plans. Plus, an excerpt from and interview…
March 15, 2023
You may have heard that the Government Accountability Office is looking into the project leading to the new web site for the Thrift Savings Plan. We won’t know what GAO comes up with until next…
March 9, 2023
A new month, and always a good time to review your savings and investment strategy. The markets continue to swoon. So it’s also a good time to remind yourself that long term, if you stick to a…
March 2, 2023
On today’s episode, our coverage of a union rally last week near the Capitol to support a bill to give federal employees an 8.7% raise next year. Also, Back in 2016, Congress passed and President Obama signed into…
February 22, 2023
Today we’ve got news for federal retirees, so listen up. Lawmakers are trying to change a couple things about the annual cost-of-living adjustments—or COLAs. They’ve reintroduced bills to get it done. One would give FERS retirees…
February 16, 2023
With the stock market continuing to fluctuate wildly, many feds still wonder what is a wise retirement investment strategy. Federal employees and retirees continue to deal with the web site of the Thrift Savings Plan and it difficult…
February 8, 2023
By nearly all measures, 2022 was a terrible year for the average investor. Inflation and a host of badly-received public policies sent both stock and bond markets in bear territory. All of the Thrift Savings…
January 27, 2023
In today’s episode, I got the low-down on pension policies for the spouses of members of the military reserve from the managing partner of the Tully Rinckey law firm, Tony Kuhn. Plus, the Office of…
January 18, 2023
In today’s episode, we hear from financial consultant Abe Grungold. The retired 38-year federal employee says users are still having issues with the new interface to the Thrift Savings Plan, which launched last June. And…
January 11, 2023
