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When Service Time is Not Service Time

Published: April 6, 2017

A federal retirement benefit involves a straight-forward calculation based on high-three salary level and service time. Unless . . . …More

Retirement No Longer a Certain Thing

Published: February 7, 2017

The best answer to the question “how does the federal employee retirement system work?” soon may be the same as …More

The Best-Laid Retirement Plans

Published: December 20, 2016

Working for the federal government conditions people to think about retirement as happening at a certain point, usually at or …More

What’s Happening with Retirement (Published: November 29, 2016)

What a TSP Open Door Policy Would Mean (Published: October 31, 2016)

Turning Your Retirement Wish into a Goal (Published: September 15, 2016)

Phased Retirement Reality (Published: August 11, 2016)

The Good News and the Bad News (Published: July 7, 2016)

Is There Life after Government? (Published: June 14, 2016)

Focus on Skills, Not Age in the Federal Workforce (Published: April 25, 2016)

Never Too Early for a Retirement Checkup (Published: March 31, 2016)

The TSP Wants You (Published: February 16, 2016)

The Three Key Retirement Points (Published: January 14, 2016)

Retirement Wave? What Retirement Wave? (Published: November 19, 2015)

The Gender Gap in Retirement Preparedness (Published: October 1, 2015)

Time for OPM to Live Up to Its Name (Published: August 31, 2015)

The TSP, Now and Later (Published: July 16, 2015)

What’s Your Career Age? (Published: June 4, 2015)

Thriving on Federal Benefits (Published: May 4, 2015)

Work Long and Prosper (Published: April 23, 2015)

A Very Long Phase (Published: March 5, 2015)

You May Catch a Boomerang in Retirement (Published: February 12, 2015)

Tough Choices on Retirement (Published: January 1, 2015)

Retirement by the Numbers (Published: December 18, 2014)

A Look Through the Window (Published: November 13, 2014)

What the TSP Doesn’t Provide for You (Published: September 18, 2014)

How Federal Retirement Stacks Up (Published: August 21, 2014)

Those Who Don”t Remember the Past (Published: June 19, 2014)

When Not to Retire (Published: March 6, 2014)

Resolutions for Retirement (Published: January 30, 2014)