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Retirement Gets Real: The Final To-Do List
Make sure you take care of these items of business before your departure date.
Pay & Benefits
Beyond the Money: Finding the Right Retirement Mindset
How to mentally prepare to leave the working world behind.
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Get Real About How Much Money You’ll Have in Retirement
The importance of estimating your net income.
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Will Signing Up for Medicare Save You Money and Improve Your Care?
Like most things health care related, it’s complicated.
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Medicare and Open Season
Here’s some information to help you make some very important decisions.
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Will There Be an End-of-Year Retirement Exodus?
If so, there may be bottlenecks in retirement processing.
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The Case for Waiting to Retire
Even for those who’ve decided they want to go next year and are at the higher end of the pay scale, it can pay to be patient.
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Rethinking Retirement During a Pandemic
It’s clear that fewer people are moving on this year, which isn’t exactly a surprise.
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Best Dates to Retire Q&A
A look at the details of what makes one day better than another.
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Best Dates to Retire 2021
Our annual look at the optimum days to bid farewell to a career in government.
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You Get a Lot More Than a Retirement Benefit
Federal employees and retirees have a variety of insurance options to choose from, too.
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Weighing the Retirement Tradeoffs
Effective planning for your future requires making a series of key decisions.
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What You Need to Know About CSRS Offset
For those feds covered by the Civil Service Retirement System and Social Security, calculating retirement benefits can get complicated.
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Be Careful of Who is Providing Your Retirement Advice
If they’re pushing alternatives to federal benefits like survivor annuities, be wary.
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How Your Benefits Have Changed Recently
To address the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the government has loosened restrictions on several federal employee benefits programs.
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5 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself Right Now
Federal employees need to be financially ready in case they’re affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
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5 Not-So-Fun Facts About Federal Retirement
A word to the wise about survivor benefits, taxes, insurance and more.
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Burning Benefits Questions
A summertime Q&A featuring hot issues involving federal retirement benefits.
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Myths, Misunderstandings and Managing Your Money
A look back at some important columns you might’ve missed from earlier this year.
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