LiteBlue Heroes
Mail Carriers are a constant in the lives of most Americans. We know our carriers and we depend on them to deliver the mail.
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LITEBLUE’S July 17th
July 17th is the last day to submit ideas about what the next generation of Post Office vehicles will look like and how they will need to function.
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LITEBLUE, Shared Services and You
The Postal Service uses HR Shared Services as their pre-retirement, all things human resources information and advice arm. Upon retirement the go-to-gurus will be the Office of Personnel Management?
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Retirement Cannot Be A Secret
Don’t go through the challenges of retirement alone. If you don’t feel comfortable talking to your family about your fears and anxieties, you can always get counseling from a career coach or some other professional familiar with the highs and lows people experience about retirement.
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Federal Retirement: Things Happen
As we age, we will invariably encounter more and more health problems. We need to prepare ourselves for those things we have not necessarily planned for.
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COLA for Federal Employees
The COLA for next year will be predicated on the increase in the average CPI of the third quarter of last year and the third quarter of this year.
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Older People and Work
We look at individuals in seats of power differently because of their status. But the answer to the question is just as true for positions of power as it is for an older person working at the Walmart.
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Postal Employee – STAPLES® Survey
PSRetirement.com, through the ‘Postal Employee – STAPLES®’ survey is requesting feedback from Postal employees about the USPS’s decision to open USPS locations in over 50 ‘test market’ STAPLES® stores.
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Federal Employee – Do You Really Want To Retire?
As a federal employee, the question ‘Do you really want to retire?’ is a totally different question than can you retire. If you don’t really want to retire because you feel you have a lot more to give and the thought of retirement simply does not appeal to you, is not an usual phenomenon.
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Changing Your LiteBlue / PostalEase Password
By now, you will almost certainly have received your new LiteBlue / PostalEase password.
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Weekly Newsletter: U.S. Postal Service and LiteBlue
Weekly Newsletter: USPS and LiteBlue Weekly Newsletter: Women’s History Month technically ended on March 31, 2014, but since the United States Postal Service has been the forerunner of placing women in the upper chambers of operations, we thought it noteworthy to dedicate our Newsletter Weekly to the United States Postal Service’s progressive and forward movement
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Postal Retirement and Benefits – Postal Employees
There are some slight differences between the benefits of Postal employees and Federal employees. We would like to explain a few of them here and potentially give you reason to seek out additional informtion from a qualified benefit expert to help you with your own specific circumstance.
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Financial Advisors and Federal Employees
Without missing a beat, I said most emphatically “It certainly does.” It is more intense because financial advisors and planners need to know more about the Federal Retirement Systems than the federal workforce.
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Social Security – Background
~~SOCIAL SECURITY-BACKGROUND As we continue building our laundry list of things we need to know and do in order to prepare to retire well, Social Security is a major item on our list. The Social Security Act was signed on August 14, 1935 some 15 years after the Civil Service came into being on August
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How To Retire Happy
~~HOW TO RETIRE HAPPY The first step to making sure you are happy in retirement is to understand that YOU MATTER. Many of us subconsciously define ourselves by our jobs and job titles. When those things no longer exist, we may begin to wonder about the significance of our lives and our future. It is
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Tips For Staying Healthy
~~Tips for Your Health Often time retirees find that a great portion of their social life has been left in the office. You spend the majority of your waking hours at work and as a result you spend most of your time with your work family. But when you retire, that work family does not
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Plan Building: How Do I Get Started?
~~HOW DO I GET STARTED WITH A PLAN? By now you are probably asking – How do I get started setting goals that are SMART and putting a plan into action? You get started by first simply writing down what you desire your retirement picture to reflect. Write down your goals, evaluate and analyze them
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Retire Well – Retirement Application
The question of when the application should be completed is relevant in evaluating your check list of things to do in order to take full advantage of your Federal and Postal Benefits.
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Tips to Getting Your House in Order to Retire Well – Interim Payments
Interim payments represent approximately 75 to 80 percent of what you will receive in your full annuity check. Don’t despair, all deficits will be recovered when you begin to receive your full annuity check.
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Emotional and Psychological Readiness
Whether you’re eligible for CSRS or eligible for FERS often concrete items that we can touch, sort of put our hands on prioritize the list of things we need to know and do in order to retire well.
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