Navigating Federal Retirement Questions Source: FEDweek Staff If your spouse is a federal employee or retiree as well, are you sure that you are that well prepared, should your spouse die first and you become the survivor? A long-time acquaintance reached out recently asking for help with some questions about federal retirement. As it turned out, […]
Federal Teleworkers to be Hit with Pay, Benefits Decreases? Pressure is building in Congress to get more data on telework, adjust locality pay to reflect actual work location versus official duty station, and to reduce federal office space. Remote workers continue to be a vital part of the federal workforce, but if two bills recently […]
My Career in Financial Planning By Carol Schmidlin My father, Frank J. Rozanski, was in the financial services business for most of his life. In 1970 he made what he calls his best decision, which was to go independent. He said he wanted to serve his clients’ best interest and not ones of the sales […]
GSA: Per Diem Rates For Federal Workers Will Increase This Fall The amount of money federal agencies will reimburse employees for traveling expenses will increase for both lodging and for meals and incidentals beginning in October. The General Services Administration announced last week that both lodging and meal and incidental per diem rates will increase […]
How to Decide if Medicare Part D is Right for You Although most federal annuitants might benefit from keeping Part D, there are three instances where you could benefit from opting out. The Inflation Reduction of Act of 2022 included improvements to Medicare Part D, and some have already been enacted—$35 insulin, no more member […]