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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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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Buyback Leave – Postal Employees
Let’s give Buying Back Leave top billing in this post. Buying Back Leave or what is commonly called Leave Buy-Back comes under the provisions of the Injury Compensation Program.
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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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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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Building A Flexible Federal Employee Retirement Plan
One of the most important components of the plan is flexibility. Life changes, people change, and as we know – the world and what makes it run – the economics of supply and demand – impacting the way we live also changes.
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FEGLI – The Order of Precendence
The Order of Precedence has no attachment to your Will. The Federal Government does not get involved in Wills and Probate. Instead, if there is no assignment of your insurance and no valid court order exists then the order is as follows ranging from first to sixth and in that order:
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