Pay & Benefits
What Feds Need to Know About Getting the Most Out of the TSP
Abraham Grungold joins the podcast to discuss his decades of experience with the Thrift Savings Plan.
Oversight
A Bill Would Repeal an Expensive Tax Rule For Public Servants
Rep. Abigail Spanberger joins the podcast to discuss her plan to put money in feds' and retirees' pockets.
Pay & Benefits
Spanberger Touts Feds’ Support for Repeal of Controversial Tax Rule Affecting Retirees
More than 2,500 people responded to an informal survey about the windfall elimination provision and government pension offset conducted by the lawmaker’s office within the first 48 hours of its posting.
Pay & Benefits
Most TSP Funds Recover From February Slump
Only one of the portfolios in the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program ended March in the red.
Pay & Benefits
Annuitants Will Feel the Impact of Medicare Part D Changes
Kevin Moss joins the podcast to discuss health care changes enacted via the Inflation Reduction Act.
Pay & Benefits
How Changes to Medicare Part D Will Impact Federal Annuitants
The new reforms might be worth giving it a second look, one expert says.
Pay & Benefits
Bill to Boost Federal Firefighters’ Retirement Benefits is Back
Rep. Gerry Connolly’s legislation would include mandatory overtime hours in calculations to determine federal firefighters’ pension benefits.
Pay & Benefits
TSP Portfolios Backslide in February
After a strong start to the year, most of the funds in the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program lost ground.
Pay & Benefits
TSP Recordkeeper Says Things Are Getting Much Better, After a Rocky Transition
Officials from Accenture Federal Services committed Tuesday to working continuously to boost customer satisfaction.
Workforce
Are Pensions the Answer to the Public-Sector Worker Shortage?
Research shows that pension benefits overwhelmingly help attract skilled workers, especially millennials.
Pay & Benefits
A Bill to Fix a Customs and Border Protection Retirement Snafu Is Revived in the Senate
More than 1,000 Customs and Border Protection officers were mistakenly promised enhanced retirement benefits, only to have them taken away once the agency realized its error.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers Try Again to Standardize Cost of Living Raises for Federal Retirees
Federal employee groups have long decried the fact that retirees enrolled in the Federal Employees Retirement System receive lower annual annuity adjustments than their peers.
Pay & Benefits
Social Security: Could the New Congress’s Sharp Divide Lead to Compromise on Reform?
Social Security manages a huge chunk of what millions of fed families depend on for retirement, disability and survivor benefits, including the majority of current workers onboarded since the 1980s under the Federal Employees Retirement System.
Workforce
Retirement, Savings and Learning from Financial Classes
Sidney and Saundra Curry join the podcast to discuss financial wellness programs can serve public servants.
Pay & Benefits
First Responder Retirement Bill Gets a Unanimous Senate Vote
The legislation allows first responders with disabilities to continue receiving federal retirement benefits in the same manner as though they had not been disabled.
Pay & Benefits
A Proposed OPM Rule Would Align Congressional Retirement Dates and Contributions With Those of Feds
Laws passed in 2012 and 2013 changed retirement benefits and contributions for members of Congress and their staff.
Workforce
GovExec Daily: The Future of Federal Pay and Benefits
As part of the State of the Federal Workforce event, financial experts Dallen Haws and Abraham Grungold joined the podcast to discuss how feds can get the most out of their benefits.
Workforce
GovExec Daily: Choosing the Best 2023 Dates to Retire
Tammy Flanagan joins the podcast to discuss her annual best dates to retire column.
Pay & Benefits
GovExec Daily: Inflation, Social Security and the COLA
The Alliance for Retired Americans' Richard Fiesta joins the podcast to discuss inflation and the recent cost of living adjustment for retirees.
Pay & Benefits