Retirement

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One way to figure if you made the right federal career choice

One federal retiree analyzed the question of whether he was right to switch from the private sector to federal.

Pay & Benefits

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Financial Wellness Across Your Federal Career

Federal Insights

Compass with needle pointing the word retirement, concept image to illustrate retirement planning

Memo to Gen Z about retirement: Life is longer than you think

Retirement

TSP mobile app gets update, new features

Federal Newscast

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Two TSP funds post negative returns in June

TSP

Federal News Network Retirement Guide GEHA

Federal News Network Retirement Guide

Federal Insights

FILE- This Sept. 19, 2013, file photo shows workers at the Target Technology Innovation Center office in San Francisco. The job market has changed under President Barack Obama's 8 years. Young people are flooding in as the elderly retire. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

New TSP option for younger federal employees

Federal Newscast

Planning for federal retirement? Here’s how, and when, to get your documents in order

Federal Insights

Tammy Flanagan

Why you need a strategy when it’s time to claim Social Security benefits

Retirement

Retirement, debt, TSP

Working or retired, don’t overlook either side of the spending-saving equation

Retirement

Retirement

Why retirement investment is a three-legged stool

TSP

FILE - This Wednesday, April 14, 2016, file photo, shows a push-button landline telephone, in Whitefield, Maine. According to a U.S. government survey released Thursday, May 4, 2017, homes and apartments with only cellphone service exceeded 50 percent for the first time, reaching 50.8 percent for the last six months of 2016. On the flip side, 45.9 percent of U.S. households still have landline phones, including newer internet-based services common with cable TV and internet packages, while the remaining households have no phone service at all. More than 39 percent of U.S. households have both landline and cellphone service. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Rumors targeting Social Security recipients cause inundation of SSA phone lines

A fake news article suggested that beneficiaries would get an immediate $600 payment increase.

Federal Newscast

OPM retirement backlog claims

OPM retirement claims backlog at lowest level since May 2016

May’s backlog is just 1,035 claims higher than the steady state goal of 13,000, the lowest backlog OPM has seen since May of 2016.

Retirement

Thiago Glieger

Why it pays to think twice about paying off that mortgage before retirement

For many people thinking about retirement is axiomatic. It might be wise to think through this strategy a little more carefully.

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