USPS Has Fallen On Hard Times – Can LiteBlue Save It
USPS has fallen onto difficult times, and are implementing plenty of changes and contemplating more dramatic changes… A LiteBlue ray of sunshine
...Read MoreUSPS has fallen onto difficult times, and are implementing plenty of changes and contemplating more dramatic changes… A LiteBlue ray of sunshine
...Read MorePostal Service employees should visit LiteBlue to download their FEHB (health benefits) guides for this year’s open season.
...Read MoreWhat account to withdraw from first in retirement to give us the greatest benefit.
...Read MoreThere are three common types of IRAs – Traditional, Roth and *Rollover. Finding the right IRA for you requires being educated about what each one offers. All IRAs are designed to help you for retirement but each has its unique features.
...Read MoreFor Federal Employees, spending will change in retirement. Some federal retirees will spend more and some will spend less based on their individual financial situation.
...Read MoreYou should carefully read all of the information in the application package and submit the forms. You do not need to submit a resignation letter. Your completed and signed application is equivalent to a resignation.
...Read MoreIt is best to make certain all of your records are in place when anticipating retirement
...Read MoreYou don’t have to follow any particular format for creating a budget except to measure income against expenses. The tips below might help you get started.
...Read MoreAfter you put your federal retirement plan in place, the biggest challenge is implementing it.
...Read MoreBuilding your Federal Retirement Individual Action Plan (IAP) starts first with building your Financial Plan – the key element to your retirement future. In order to achieve our collective goal of retiring with comfort and security, we must underscore the inescapable urgency of identifying and setting goals. Without setting SMART goals we cannot develop a workable
...Read MoreThe Financial Plan is a key component of your overall Retirement Planning strategy, so you can retire well and live in comfort and security.
...Read MoreThe number of employees expected to sign on for retirement did not happen because too many Federal employees are ill-prepared to retire.
...Read MoreIt seems to be the general concensus that a Last Will and Testament is an essential part of a good estate plan but Living Trusts are not as widely used nor understood.
...Read MoreThere was a FERS open season held back in 1987-88 and 1998, allowing employees with at least five years of Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) service to voluntarily transfer to FERS during one of the two open seasons.
...Read MoreYour Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) is funded via payroll deductions. Therefore, once you are no longer an employee your participation in the TSP stops as far as being able to make contributions. However, you don’t have to take your money out of the TSP, you just cannot put money into it.
...Read MoreVERA offerings might help agencies create efficiency and balance the budget, but those same results might not be achieved for the federal retiree.
...Read MoreDirector of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Katherine Archuleta stated that increasing the population of younger workers in the Federal sector is a challenge with part of the problem being demand.
...Read MoreBecause affordability is a key phenomenon for many retirees, they choose different paths to living out their retirement years.
...Read MoreThe Post Office’s 500,000 employees have already been cut by 200,000 with plans to trim another 100,000. There are many changes slated to take place in the Post Office to create efficiency by incorporating technology that will answer the growing needs of customers.
...Read MoreThe Post Office has a long history of serving the nation. Carrying the mail has not always been easy. Many carriers had to carry rifles and pistols to ward off stage coach robbers. Mary Fields knew how to handle a gun. Fortunately laws have been made to protect Mail Carriers and the mail.
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