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FEGLI Program Participants Can Assign Their FEGLI Life Insurance

09/21/2023
Breaking down what FEGLI assignment is and how it works. This is the third of four FEDZONE columns during September that are being presented to help mark the month of September as “Life Insurance Awareness Month” (LIAM) as designated in ... Read More

What is a Viatical Settlement and How Does It Work?

09/14/2023
What a Viatical Settlement is and how it works. In 2003, the nonprofit organization Life Happens created and coordinated “Life Insurance Awareness Month” (LIAM) designating the month of September to remind the American people about the importance of life insurance ... Read More

The Living Benefits Rider Available with the FEGLI Program

09/11/2023
Understanding the Living Benefits Rider Available with the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) Program In 2003, the nonprofit organization Life Happens created and coordinated “Life Insurance Awareness Month (LIAM)” designating the month of September to remind the American people ... Read More

GSA 2024 Per Diem Rates for Lodging, Meals, and Incidental Purchases

08/21/2023
Next year’s reimbursement rates have been revealed by GSA. When government employees use a personally owned vehicle for federal business, and no government-owned vehicle was available, they can receive a reimbursement for fuel. The current year’s rate is 65 and ... Read More

Don’t Lose Momentum When It Comes to Saving for Retirement

06/15/2023
The closing piece of our series on lessons from football that can be applied to your federal retirement plan. Ok readers! Huddle up, On ME! We have reached our final article in this series on financial lessons from the gridiron. ... Read More

Weekly Benefits Quiz for Federal Employees

05/19/2023
Serving Those Who Serve’s Weekly Quiz for Feds! UPCOMING TAXES WEBINAR [ays_quiz id=”57″] **Written by Benjamin Derge, Financial Planner, ChFEBC℠ The information has been obtained from sources considered reliable but we do not guarantee that the foregoing material is accurate ... Read More

Keeping Your TSP Strategy Disciplined in the Face of Adversity

05/18/2023
We break down another lesson learned from football that is applicable to federal retirement planning. Hello readers. Welcome back to my series, “Don’t Miss These Three Federal Retirement Lessons from… Football?” Today we will dive into lesson #2: Discipline in ... Read More

Retirement and Benefit Quiz for Federal Workers

05/05/2023
Serving Those Who Serve’s Weekly Quiz for Feds! UPCOMING TSP WEBINAR [ays_quiz id=”55″] **Written by Benjamin Derge, Financial Planner, ChFEBC℠ The information has been obtained from sources considered reliable but we do not guarantee that the foregoing material is accurate ... Read More

Important Age and Service Milestones for Federal Employees

05/05/2023
A list of milestones that feds can use as a guide to make sure they’re on track for retirement planning. Federal employees reach stages of their federal service in which they achieve age and service milestones. The following is a ... Read More

VERA and VSIP: When Agencies Incentivize Retiring Early

05/04/2023
The reasons that an agency may invoke their authority to offer early retirements, or incentive payments to feds who voluntarily leave their federal position, have to be related to a “substantial” restructuring of the agency or by downsizing the agency’s ... Read More