FEDLIFE PODCAST 42: Maximize Social Security
In this episode, Dan Sipe and Ed Zurndorfer are back with multiple strategies to help feds optimize their tax situation, and achieve the maximum benefits on their Social Security.
Required Minimum Distributions Have Returned for 2021
This column explains how RMDs will be calculated during 2021 for those individuals who are required to take them. Before presenting the general RMD calculation procedure, it is useful to…
Biden Throws Out Executive Orders from Previous Administration
Applauded by Union leaders, Biden canceled five executive orders from Trump presidency- 1 involving “Schedule F,” 3 regarding collective bargaining rights, and another that halted diversity training in agencies.
More Fishy Technology Developed at Department of Energy’s WPTO
The smallest ever tracking device for fish, as well as new protections in hydroelectric dams, are two innovations featured in the DOE WPTO’s 2020 Accomplishments Report
Do You Need to Beware of the Social Security “Earnings Test”?
For Employees Born Between 1955 and 1959 and Receiving Social Security Retirement Benefits During 2021, Beware of the “Earnings Test”
USDA Releases Summary of Agricultural Innovation Agenda
Roadmap for future agricultural research decisions, up to 2050, laid out by USDA
Recently Passed Legislation Results in Tax Changes for 2020 and 2021
Ed Zurndorfer discusses these changes, as well as presenting automatic inflation adjustments to individual income tax brackets and other employee benefits thresholds and limits taking effect in 2021.
FEDLIFE Podcast: Ep. 41: Optimizing Your Financial Situation
In this episode, Dan Sipe and Ed Zurndorfer have come up with a list of ten essential year-end planning tips. They improvise on some of the strategies from last year…
FDA Issues Statement on COVID-19 Variant that Emerged in the UK.
B117 Variant of COVID-19 is not being detected by all tests, FDA reports, but the impact is “not significant.”
2021 Federal Pay Raise Finalized by Executive Order
Last minute executive order finalized the 2021 Federal Pay Raise at 1% for civilians and 3% for military