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Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
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Picking a Date to Retire—Maximizing Your Benefits

Published: August 7, 2019

Last week we looked at the rules governing when your are eligible to retire and when your annuity begins. In …More

Picking a Date to Retire – Retirement Rules

Published: July 31, 2019

Last week we looked at the things you need to consider before you decide to retire. Now let’s turn to …More

Are You Ready to Retire?

Published: July 24, 2019

The year is more than half over and you aren’t alone if you are thinking about retiring around the turn …More

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Children’s Benefits – Health Benefits for Disabled Children

Published: July 17, 2019

Last week we looked at life and health benefits available to your children. The law allows children to be covered …More

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Children’s Benefits – Life and Health Insurance

Published: July 10, 2019

In recent weeks we have looked at survivor annuities provided to children and the special policies regarding disabilities. This time, …More

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Children’s Benefits – Disabled Child Annuity

Published: July 3, 2019

Last week I wrote about the annuity benefits of children where one or both of the parents have died. In …More

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Children’s Benefits – Annuities

Published: June 26, 2019

Did you know that the children of deceased federal employees and retirees are entitled to a number of benefits? Well, …More

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Present Value for Annuities to be Updated

Published: June 19, 2019

On May 17, OPM issued notices in the Federal Register indicating that the present value factors for CSRS and FERS …More

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Life Insurance – Option C

Published: June 11, 2019

If you are enrolled in the Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance program Basic insurance, you can enroll in Option C. …More

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Life Insurance – Option B

Published: June 5, 2019

Recent articles have looked at two kinds of Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance available to you as a federal employee: …More

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Life Insurance – Option A

Published: May 28, 2019

Last week we looked at Basic insurance and spelled out the choices for continued coverage available to you when you …More

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Life Insurance – Basic Insurance

Published: May 21, 2019

The federal government provides a number of options under the Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance program (FEGLI). When you were …More

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Reemployment after Disability

Published: May 15, 2019

Over the past weeks, we have looked at the criteria you must meet to be eligible for disability retirement, how …More

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Choosing Between Workers’ Compensation and Disability Retirement

Published: May 7, 2019

Last week we looked at how the workers’ compensation program administered by OWCP can be an alternative to disability retirement. …More

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How Workers’ Compensation Works

Published: April 30, 2019

Over the past few weeks, we’ve explored OPM’s disability retirement program in depth, from how you qualify through the way …More

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What Happens After You are on the Disability Annuity Roll

Published: April 24, 2019

Over the past few weeks, we have looked at the criteria you must meet to be eligible for disability retirement, …More

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Disability Retirement – Calculating a FERS Benefit

Published: April 17, 2019

Last week we looked at how disability benefits are calculated for CSRS employees, now let’s take a look at for …More

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Calculating a CSRS Disability Benefit

Published: April 10, 2019

Recent articles in this space have looked at the criteria that must be met to be approved for disability retirement, …More

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Disability Retirement – How to Apply

Published: April 3, 2019

Last week we covered the criteria you’d have to meet to qualify for disability retirement. In short, you’d have to …More

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Disability Retirement – What Some Need to Know

Published: March 26, 2019

I hope that what I’m writing about in this series on disability retirement will only be of academic interest to …More

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    You can choose to assign—that is, transfer ownership of—Federal Employees Group Life Insurance coverage. This […]

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YTD-0.10%%-0.32%-0.37%-0.41%0.07%-0.71%-1.01%2.85%-1.09%
Jan-0.10%%-0.32%-0.37%-0.41%0.07%-0.71%-1.01%2.85%-1.09%
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