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The Congressional babies face ANOTHER SHUTDOWN

The federal government is barreling toward another catastrophic midnight deadline, and the political gears in Washington have ground to a bone-crushing halt. As the critical September 30, 2026, deadline looms, a deeply divided Congress is playing a high-stakes game of political chicken with the nation’s pocketbook, just weeks before the November midterm elections. Speaker Mike

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Federal Benefit Advisory

A Soft Landing:

Dreaming About Retirement Imagine sitting at a quiet kitchen table. The coffee is steaming, the house is still, and that clock on the wall feels just a little louder than it used to. You’ve worked so hard, and you’ve finally crossed the finish line. It is a massive achievement. But if we are completely honest

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The View from my office Chair

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

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A living Dinosaur discovered in Washington DC:

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

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What’s going on in Congress, that will affect the Fed Employee?

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

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The Congressional babies face ANOTHER SHUTDOWN

The federal government is barreling toward another catastrophic midnight deadline, and the political gears in Washington have ground to a bone-crushing halt. As the critical September 30, 2026, deadline looms, a deeply divided Congress is playing a high-stakes game of political chicken with the nation’s pocketbook, just weeks before the November midterm elections. Speaker Mike

Read More »
Federal Benefit Advisory

A Soft Landing:

Dreaming About Retirement Imagine sitting at a quiet kitchen table. The coffee is steaming, the house is still, and that clock on the wall feels just a little louder than it used to. You’ve worked so hard, and you’ve finally crossed the finish line. It is a massive achievement. But if we are completely honest

Read More »

The View from my office Chair

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

Read More »

A living Dinosaur discovered in Washington DC:

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

Read More »

What’s going on in Congress, that will affect the Fed Employee?

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

Read More »
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