Federal Employee Information Partnership
In my job as a retirement and long-term care planner, clients often treat me as a “father confessor,” a life coach, or just a sounding board when they have no one else to talk to. Over the years, I have noticed a common theme: people are incredibly impatient with their fellow employees, supervisors, family and
THE SOCIAL SECURITY TAX EARNINGS TEST An ancient 1935 animal, thought extinct, roams the halls of congress The United States Congress has become a slow, lumbering beast. It is a political INCOMETAXOSAURUS, trapped in the tar pits of congress, stubbornly refusing to evolve even as the modern economic climate changes around it. This total evolutionary
Hardworking and loyal federal employees face a landscape of shifting compensation and retirement policies that demand careful tracking. Recent executive actions set a modest 1% baseline pay increase for 2026 while holding locality pay entirely frozen. Additionally, a gap persists between older retirement systems and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), where newer retirees receive
For generations of dedicated public servants, the road to a well-earned retirement was paved with a very specific, monumental stack of paper. At the absolute center of that paper fortress sat Standard Form 3107—the Application for Immediate Retirement under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). It was a form to be treated with immense care,
If you look at the glossy brochures coming out of the big financial houses on Wall Street, they will tell you that the United States economy is a marvel of resilience. They use comfortable, scrubbed-clean phrases like “standard market cycle” and “healthy correction” and diversification to describe the terrifying cycles in your retirement account. They
How Federal Work Has Changed Twenty-five years ago, as the century turned, the federal workforce stood on what felt like bedrock. In those days, a career in public service was more than just a job; it was a promise of permanence, a “rock-solid” commitment that allowed young families to plan for the long term with
In my job as a retirement and long-term care planner, clients often treat me as a “father confessor,” a life coach, or just a sounding board when they have no one else to talk to. Over the years, I have noticed a common theme: people are incredibly impatient with their fellow employees, supervisors, family and
THE SOCIAL SECURITY TAX EARNINGS TEST An ancient 1935 animal, thought extinct, roams the halls of congress The United States Congress has become a slow, lumbering beast. It is a political INCOMETAXOSAURUS, trapped in the tar pits of congress, stubbornly refusing to evolve even as the modern economic climate changes around it. This total evolutionary
Hardworking and loyal federal employees face a landscape of shifting compensation and retirement policies that demand careful tracking. Recent executive actions set a modest 1% baseline pay increase for 2026 while holding locality pay entirely frozen. Additionally, a gap persists between older retirement systems and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), where newer retirees receive
For generations of dedicated public servants, the road to a well-earned retirement was paved with a very specific, monumental stack of paper. At the absolute center of that paper fortress sat Standard Form 3107—the Application for Immediate Retirement under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). It was a form to be treated with immense care,
If you look at the glossy brochures coming out of the big financial houses on Wall Street, they will tell you that the United States economy is a marvel of resilience. They use comfortable, scrubbed-clean phrases like “standard market cycle” and “healthy correction” and diversification to describe the terrifying cycles in your retirement account. They
How Federal Work Has Changed Twenty-five years ago, as the century turned, the federal workforce stood on what felt like bedrock. In those days, a career in public service was more than just a job; it was a promise of permanence, a “rock-solid” commitment that allowed young families to plan for the long term with
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