Search Tags:  benefits

Life insurance premium drop could mean time to buy

Tammy Flanagan, the senior benefits director at the National Institute of Transition Planning joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what federal employees should consider when choosing a life-insurance program.

Tags: Tammy Flanagan , NITP , pay and benefits , life insurance , In Depth , Francis Rose

Comment

Name your buyout price

Would you take a buyout if the boss offered you one? You might want to decide now because if and when an offer comes, it won't be on the table very long, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , retirement , buyout , Buyout Guide , early retirement , VERA , VSIP

6

To COLA or not to COLA...

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 , COLA , retirement

5

The secrets of well-endowed feds

Do you know any well-endowed feds? You know — people who have more than it takes? So how did they get that way? Check out Mike Causey's Federal Report and learn the secrets of the masters.

Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , TSP , Tom Trabucco , John Bogle

7

Inflation down but COLA is steady

Inflation dropped last month but that won't have any impact on the 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment coming to retired feds in a couple of weeks. But some will get more than others.

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

13

Feds' pay, pensions safe in payroll tax cut extension

Federal employees have dodged a bullet...for now. Congress will not freeze federal pay or change the annuity formula to pay for the two-month extension of the payroll tax cut.

Tags: payroll tax cut , Congress , Senate , House , pay and benefits , pay , high 3 , high 5 , Pensions

1

For feds, deja vu all over again

If the bad news coming out of Congress sounds familiar, there is a reason for it, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. You've heard it lots of times this year, and we're only halfway through the month of December ...

Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , pay , Congress , pay freeze

21

Monday madness checklist

There is still time, but not much, to pick your 2012 health plan. Missing the boat could mean you'll shell out much too much money in premiums. And doing the wrong thing could translate into a $14,000 mistake, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , Open Season , FEHBP , Walt Francis , Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees

Comment

PMS season hits government

Be careful. Be very careful. The PMS season for government workers is about to spike, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. And you know what that means.

Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , health insurance , FEHBP , Open Season , Walt Francis , Your Turn , Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees

4

House to vote on bill modifying FECA

If enacted, H.R. 2465 would make several changes to the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, including allowing assistants and nurses to certify disabilities.

Tags: House , FECA , George Miller , Tim Walberg , Lynn Woolsey , health care

1