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The COORDINATED RETIREMENT PLAN

What in the world is a coordinated retirement plan? When was the last time you heard of a doctor, a financial planner, a lawyer or a real estate agent getting together to coordinate their planning efforts for a client they all serve? When you think about it, all of these elements have an impact on

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Federal Benefit Advisory

Social Security Benefits You May Be Unaware

Retirement planning involves making some very important decisions regarding your federal pension benefit, Thrift Savings Plan investments and Social Security. This week, I’d like to focus on the last of these, because it includes a variety of benefits, each with a specific time frame for claiming and unique rules regarding payouts. and each comes with its

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Federal Benefit Advisory

What Does Rate of Return mean to your TSP/IRA, 403(b) or 401(k)?

First, let’s look at the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) It was created to provide employees with a retirement boost in federally sponsored retirement benefits. To the federal employee as well as local government and private industry. The account are the TSP, but to include IRA, 401(k), 403(b) and other ‘Defined Contribution’

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Federal Benefit Advisory

Converting all my TSP to a ROTH TSP?

I get this question 3 or 5 times per month.  The answer in three words, YOU CAN NOT! and here is why: If you really want to convert your TSP to ROTH, understand that first, the conversion is a taxable event, therefore, your income, from the job, the income from supplement or social security, the

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Federal Benefit Advisory

Support for Guardsman & Reservists

Military Reservist or Guardsman, sometime face a conundrum; work or reserve? Did you know the law supports you, the Reservist and Guardsman under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act. You have an ombudsman, to work for you, on your behalf. Employers signing a statement of support pledge that: Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment

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Federal Benefit Advisory

REDUCTION IN FORCE

what fact and fiction? What concerns me, is what is said about this subject, which is far from fact, when in fact, as of this writing, much is unknown and not explained well to the federal employee. I am speaking loss of job and early retirement through a , RIF, VERA, and VSIP, the incentive

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Federal Benefit Advisory

The COORDINATED RETIREMENT PLAN

What in the world is a coordinated retirement plan? When was the last time you heard of a doctor, a financial planner, a lawyer or a real estate agent getting together to coordinate their planning efforts for a client they all serve? When you think about it, all of these elements have an impact on

Read More »
Federal Benefit Advisory

Social Security Benefits You May Be Unaware

Retirement planning involves making some very important decisions regarding your federal pension benefit, Thrift Savings Plan investments and Social Security. This week, I’d like to focus on the last of these, because it includes a variety of benefits, each with a specific time frame for claiming and unique rules regarding payouts. and each comes with its

Read More »
Federal Benefit Advisory

What Does Rate of Return mean to your TSP/IRA, 403(b) or 401(k)?

First, let’s look at the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) It was created to provide employees with a retirement boost in federally sponsored retirement benefits. To the federal employee as well as local government and private industry. The account are the TSP, but to include IRA, 401(k), 403(b) and other ‘Defined Contribution’

Read More »
Federal Benefit Advisory

Converting all my TSP to a ROTH TSP?

I get this question 3 or 5 times per month.  The answer in three words, YOU CAN NOT! and here is why: If you really want to convert your TSP to ROTH, understand that first, the conversion is a taxable event, therefore, your income, from the job, the income from supplement or social security, the

Read More »
Federal Benefit Advisory

Support for Guardsman & Reservists

Military Reservist or Guardsman, sometime face a conundrum; work or reserve? Did you know the law supports you, the Reservist and Guardsman under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act. You have an ombudsman, to work for you, on your behalf. Employers signing a statement of support pledge that: Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment

Read More »
Federal Benefit Advisory

REDUCTION IN FORCE

what fact and fiction? What concerns me, is what is said about this subject, which is far from fact, when in fact, as of this writing, much is unknown and not explained well to the federal employee. I am speaking loss of job and early retirement through a , RIF, VERA, and VSIP, the incentive

Read More »
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