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Open Season Time
Employees have about a month to opt into health insurance and flexible spending plans.
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Liable to be Liable
When it’s time to implement pay-for-performance, managers might want extra protection.
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Costly Confusion
Technical glitches are continuing to leave some feds stuck in the wrong retirement system.
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Figuring Your Locality Pay
The lowdown on what the Federal Salary Council's 2006 locality pay recommendations mean for you.
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Safety Deposit
You don’t automatically get annuity credit for military service when you retire.
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Playing Catch-up
Catch-up contributions give the 50-and-over crowd a backdoor to the TSP.
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Travel Math
Rules for getting compensatory time off for travel are fussy and complex.
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Life and Death Planning
Employees should get paperwork and information ready so survivors can claim their benefits when they die.
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Reaping REITs' Rewards
Beyond the political disagreement, how would a REIT option affect TSP portfolios?
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The Game of Life(cycle)
Who is and who isn’t investing in the TSP’s new life-cycle funds?
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Thinking Long-Term
Insurance that covers nursing homes and assisted living costs isn’t fun to think about, but it may be a smart move
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Life-Cycle Variety
The popular new “life-cycle” funds have far lower administrative costs, but are missing some of the innovations of certain private plans.
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Performance Pay: A History
Pay for performance in government isn’t exactly a new concept.
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All About FSAs
Money saved for braces, laser eye surgery and even summer camp can be tax-free.
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Eye of the Storm
Agencies can give volunteering employees excused absences, OPM says.
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Relocation board’s charter extended through end of 2005
The Governmentwide Relocation Advisory Board’s charter given some wiggle room in case it stumbles in meeting September reporting deadline.
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