Federal Retirement Blog

What’s New at Plan-Your-Federal-Retirement.com?

The Federal Retirement Blog keeps you up-to-date with the most recent information available at Plan-Your-Federal-Retirement.com.

This site-blog…

• Lets you know when new web pages appear at Plan-Your-Federal-Retirement.com
• Keeps you up-to-date on important Federal Retirement topics
• Lets you know when we update a current page with new information (like new examples to help you understand your Federal benefits)
• Points out some of our most important pages that you might otherwise have missed.

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Federal Retirement Planning Newsletter

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Why should you get the RSS feed *and* the newsletter?

They provide different information:

• The RSS feed let’s you know what’s new at Plan-Your-Federal-Retirement.com


• The Newsletter, Federal Retirement Planning, includes important articles on your CSRS or FERS benefits.

Sometimes the articles will be included in the pages of the website – but they will appear in the newsletter first.

And when you sign up for the Newsletter, you’ll get access to my free special report to help you avoid costly retirement mistakes.

If you’re really interested in learning about your Federal Retirement, I’d suggest them both – that way you won’t miss a thing.

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Now, Here’s What’s New at Plan-Your-Federal-Retirement.com…

Maxing Out Your CSRS Retirement

Can your CSRS retirement pension exceed the 80% rule? Find out what happens when you max out your CSRS Retirement at 42 years of service.

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Civil Service Retirement System - What You Need to Know about CSRS Retirement

Ready to plan your CSRS Retirement? Make sure you know about all of your benefits under the Civil Service Retirement System.

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Locality Rate for Anchorage, Alaska

1. Will the Government use the last federal salary survey (FSS) conducted in 2005 at est. pay gap of 54%, which based on past practice elsewhere results

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Pay Caps - Maximum GS Pay Limitations

GS-15 step 10 non-special rate employees will exceed the maximum GS pay limitation when the locality pay exceeds 20%. There's a provision in the Act

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FERS Retirement Seminar - Federal Retirement Planning

Want to learn about your Federal Retirement benefits? Sign up for our FERS Retirement Seminar.

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Does the Locality Pay Include Alaskan Postal Employees?

While I'm reading about the locality pay finally being a reality for Alaskan federal employees, no where in the articles do I see Postal employees included?

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Take-Home Pay Concerns

Who will monitor the agencies to guarantee employees' take home pay is not affected? Can a federal agency reduce the COLA first, affecting the take home

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