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Medicare Questions
Answers to your queries about Medicare and federal health benefits.
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Don’t Forget Medicare
It pays to factor it into your post-retirement health insurance planning.
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Trick or Treat
How to make the best of the horror show of delays in processing retirement applications.
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COLA Crunch
Two years of zero increases in Social Security benefits have some retirees up in arms.
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Life Insurance Lessons
Answers to some key questions about Federal Employees Group Life Insurance.
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Getting Help
How to gather the key information and advice you need to prepare for retirement.
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Health Reform and Your Children
The lowdown on new rules extending coverage to adult children of FEHBP participants.
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Understanding CSRS Offset
The peculiarities of the niche retirement system aimed largely at people who had a break in federal service at some point.
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The Magic Number
If you're eligible for Social Security benefits at age 62, should you take them now or wait?
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The Next Adventure
Deciding when to move on -- and what to do -- is an intensely personal process.
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At Your Service
Answers to readers’ questions about service requirements and retirement.
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Checks and Balances
Controversy is simmering over distribution of life insurance benefits via "checkbooks."
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From Military to Civilian
A look at options for those who started in the armed forces and ended their careers in the civil service.
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Before Your Time
What happens when you’re ready to retire, but don’t have a full career’s worth of federal service?
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