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Obama budget: Spending cuts, higher smokers' taxes
Tags: budget , deficit , sequestration , Barack Obama , Congress , chained CPI , COLAs
Changes to COLAs, retirement benefits included in Obama's 2014 budget
President Barack Obama is calling for the implementation of the "chained Consumer Price Index" to measure inflation. The change will reduce cost-of-living adjustments for retired federal employees and Social Security recipients. The 2014 budget is officially scheduled for release on Wednesday.
Tags: budget , 2014 budget , Barack Obama , Congress , chained CPI , COLA , retirement ,
Gov't downsizes amid GOP demands for more cuts
Social Security and retirement
Lester Austin, public affairs specialist for the Social Security Administration, takes your calls and email questions.
January 28, 2013
Tags: pay and benefits , retirement , Social Security Administration , Bob Leins , John Elliott , Lester Austin , For Your Benefit
Hitting the debt limit: What bills would be paid?
Tags: President Barack Obama , debt ceiling , budget , management , Congress , Congressional Budget Office ,
Financial planning and a view from the 'cliff'
Certified Financial Planner Joseph Sullender on how to best prepare for your retirement.
December 17, 2012(Encore presentation December 24, 2012)
Tags: Joseph Sullender , For Your Benefit , Bob Leins , Tammy Flanagan , federal retirement , fiscal cliff , sequestration , Social Security Dual Entitlement benefits , F Fund investments
'Fiscal cliff' fears don't change financial-planning basics
Wells Fargo Advisors' Joe Sullender says any tax deal between Congress and the president will probably change your income taxes less than you think.
Tags: Joseph Sullender , Bob Leins , Tammy Flanagan , federal retirement , fiscal cliff , sequestration ,
Fight for federal retirement overhaul offers lessons for today's fiscal challenges
Tom Trabucco, the former long-time director of external affairs for the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, said legislative changes to the federal retirement system made by Congress a quarter-century ago actually succeeded in achieving its goals and serve as a reminder of what can be accomplished when something big needs to be done and key leaders step up to the line.
Tags: FERS , FERS: 25 Years Later , pay and benefits , Tom Trabucco , TSP
Open season means more than choosing health insurance
John Montague talks about life insurance and Sean Reilly discuses the U.S. Postal Service's finances and more this week on Your Turn.
Tags: pay and benefits , Open Season , life insurance , Your Turn with Mike Causey , John Montague , Sean Reilly , USPS , WAEPA , Federal Times
Social Security benefits get a 1.7 percent bump
Tags: cost of living , retirement
