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The Retirement Process
Answers to some common questions about the details of the formal process of retiring.
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Retiring Women
You’re likely to live a longer and different life than your mother, and you should plan for your retirement accordingly.
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Retirement Checklist
The five things you should do before you retire from government.
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A Whole Different Kind of Service
A look at the complex rules involving retirement credit for work in nonappropriated fund instrumentalities.
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Crediting Volunteer Service
How service in prominent federal volunteer programs is treated in retirement computations.
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Computing Your Service
Understanding your service computation date and its importance to your potential retirement income.
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Retirement Estimate: The Details
The lowdown on how your basic retirement benefit is determined.
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Basic Retirement Computations
Understanding the math behind computing your basic retirement benefit.
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Estimating Your Benefits
If you’re thinking about retiring, it’s a good idea to at least get a ballpark figure on the benefits you’ll be receiving.
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Honey Pot
The Thrift Savings Plan has grown into a $200 billion-plus retirement behemoth, but its nearly 4 million participants might be surprised to learn how their money is managed.
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TSP Withdrawal Quiz
A short series of questions to help you through the process of assessing the options for withdrawing funds from your Thrift Savings Plan account.
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Life Expectancy vs. Life Annuity
A closer look at the options for geting monthly payments from your Thrift Savings Plan account.
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Back to Work, Again
A look at reader reaction to last week’s column on re-employed annuitants, with details on how the rules differ at the Defense Department.
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Back to Work
What happens when you retire, but then are enticed to return to the civil service?
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Service Interruption
What happens to your retirement benefits when you have to leave your civilian federal job for active-duty military service?
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Part-Time Rules, Part Two
The second of a two-part series looks at the details of factoring part-time service into federal retirement benefits calculations.
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Part-Time Rules, Part One
The first in a two-part series on the ramifications of easing into retirement by cutting back on your work hours.
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
A look at the factors you should weigh in deciding the best time to retire.
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Short-Term Benefits
You don’t have to spend your whole career in government to reap the benefits of the federal retirement system.
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Taking Your (Sick) Leave
What happens to your unused sick leave when you leave government? It depends.
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