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Should Both Spouses Retire at the Same Time?
When scheduling your retirement date, your spouse (and their career) become an important consideration. Maybe you can’t wait to travel together and spend more time with family, so you might wish to both retire at the same time. On the other hand, there can be important reasons for retiring at different times. What about healthcare? If you (or...
Carrying Your Health Benefits Into Retirement
If you’re a federal employee who appreciates your healthcare program, you might be happy to learn that you can indeed continue your Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) into retirement. This provision, available to federal employees, is unlike most healthcare systems offered to private sector workers. Carrying your FEHB into retirement means...
Accessing Your Thrift Savings Plan
In past blogs, we have discussed retirement timing and planning for your ideal retirement date. But of course, sometimes things don’t go as planned. In the event that you want or need to retire earlier than you originally scheduled, you might need to access your Thrift Savings Plan and you will want to do so in a way that best benefits you. Along...
Planning Your Official Retirement Date
It is often said that there are only two things that are certain in life: Death and taxes. Considering that Benjamin Franklin made that statement a couple of centuries ago, when times were quite different, we would add one more certainty to the list. Nearly all of us will retire at some point. But when? Maybe you can’t wait to retire, or perhaps...
3 Important Social Security Rules
One day, you will depend upon a combination of your annuity payments, withdrawals from your Thrift Savings Account, and a monthly Social Security benefit to provide your retirement income. With regard to Social Security benefits, there are three things you should know as you plan for retirement, so that you can maximize your potential benefits....
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