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The COLA condundrum: Recent retired feds won't see increase

Tammy Flanagan, senior benefits director at the National Institute of Transition Planning, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what federal employees and retirees need to know about the COLA increase.

Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , Tammy Flanagan , NITP , retirement , pay and benefits , Social Security ,

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Does it pay to work?

Are you better off financially slogging it to work or sleeping in five days a week. Some people say that all things considered they would be better off as a retiree than as an office serf. So do the math, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , retirement , benefits , workforce , Social Security

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In COLA bump, not all fed retirees treated same

David Snell, the director of retirement benefits at the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss how the COLA bump affects feds differently.

Tags: pay and benefits , retirement , David Snell , NARFE , Federal Drive , Tom Temin , Amy Morris

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How will COLA affect feds who aren't retired?

Tammy Flanagan is the senior benefits director at the National Institute of Transition Planning.

Tags: Tammy Flanagan , National Institute of Transition Planning , pay and benefits , retirement , SSA , Social Security , In Depth

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Federal retirees get COLA bump in 2012

The annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is based on a measure of inflation that Congress adopted in the 1970s. Since then, it has resulted in annual increases averaging 4.2 percent.

Tags: pay and benefits , SSA , retirement , Associated Press

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A dose of Medicare Part B with your FEHBP? Who gets a COLA in 2012?

David Snell is the retirement benefits expert with NARFE.

Tags: David Snell , NARFE , pay and benefits , Mike Causey , Medicare , FEHBP , health insurance , CPI , Jolie Lee

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Retirees likely to be 'pleasantly surprised' with first COLA since 2008

Tammy Flanagan is the senior benefits director at the National Institute of Transition Planning.

Tags: Tammy Flanagan , pay and benefits , National Institute of Transition Planning , In Depth

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DoD: Troops will see reduced cost-of-living adjustments

The Pentagon reminding workers stationed overseas to leave out cost-of-living pay when calculating their household budgets.

Tags: DoD , DoD Report , pay and benefits

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Dinosaurs and Your COLA

Times are tough but what does the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs have to do with your retirement program? The short answer, according to Senior Correspondent Mike Causey, is "not much" and in these troubled times that's a very good thing.

Tags: FERS flu , sick-leave credit , worst breakfast

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Pay Raises, COLAs and the Crisis

Are you worried about the impact of the current financial crisis on your January pay raise or retiree cost of living adjustment? If so, welcome to the club, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it's not as bad as all that.

Tags: pay raise , honeyfugler

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