Retirement prep tips: Boost your Social Security benefit 76%

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Retirement prep tips: Boost your Social Security benefit 76%

FromYour Turn with Mike Causey

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On this episode, Tammy Flanagan covers the basics and then some, to help put more money in your monthly retirement income and reduce costs to you. Your Turn with Mike Causey airs at 10 a.m. EDT on 1500 AM in the Washington, D.C. area and www.federalnewsnetwork.com.

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Federal News Network Senior Correspondent Mike Causey discusses everything of interest to federal employees, from pay, benefits and retirement, to buyouts, COLAs and pay freezes.

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What is your plan B?: Are you planning to retire soon or leave your federal job? What happens to your benefits? Find out when benefits expert John Grobe joins host Mike Causey on this weeks Your Turn. July 26, 2017 by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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What does the future hold for your TSP?: This week on Your Turn, financial planner Arthur Stein tells feds and retirees what, if anything, they should be doing now with their Thrift Savings Plan accounts. by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Do you have a plan B for your TSP?: Have you protected your TSP from the next stock market crash? Financial planner Arthur Stein will explain what you should be doing now to protect your financial assets when he joins host Mike Causey on this weeks Your Turn. by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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SES: Alive & kicking: How things are going for the SES and SEA. by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Is there a buyout (or a layoff) in your future? by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Buyouts: What, if anything is likely to happen?: Are you one of hundreds of thousands of federal workers who could retire tomorrow if you wanted to? What if Uncle Sam made you a once-in-a-lifetime cash offer you couldnt refuse. And what if that payment, now $25,000, was bumped up by... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Estate planning: Where do you start?: Your federal retirement could last decades so it pays to plan ahead. As in having a plan. Doing the right/smart thing now means a payoff for you, for your spouse/significant other and your children. And peace of mind. The way you get... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Should you stick with TSP after you retire?: Why do so many federal employees move out of TSP when they retire from the government? What should you do? by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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2017: A year in review: This week on Your Turn, Federal News Radio reporters Nicole Ogrysko, Scott Maucione and Meredith Somers join host Mike Causey to discuss the top federal news stories in 2017 and what is (maybe) going to be on tap for 2018. by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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The 2017 Tax Act: How does it affect you?: The 2017 Tax Act: How does it affect you? by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Protecting your TSP account: Did the recent stock market nosedive send you moving money from the stock indexed C and S funds into the G fund for safety? If so, was that a smart move? And what’s next? Are you waiting, as in sweating, a much bigger correction that many... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Index Funds & The TSP: Follow The Money: The biggest gains federal worker and retiree investors have made in their Thrift Savings Plan accounts have come from the stock-indexed C, S and I funds. But whats an index and whats an index fund. And why do you need them in your portfolio?... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Is there a buyout in your future?: Although buyouts are out there, the odds that you personally will get a $25,000 to $40,000 payment to leave are slim and none. You can wait, and hope, and maybe, just maybe get lucky. But the deck is stacked against you. by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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The pros & cons of the blended retirement system by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Congress is back! What does that mean for you? by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Medicare Part B: Do you need it?: Nearly half the questions health insurance hunters have involve or revolve around Medicare Part B. As in, do I need it? Can I afford it? What, if any, are the alternatives to Medicare Part B? What happens to the premium if I delay taking... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Are changes coming to your retirement plan?: Are there people in your office who love their jobs and dread retirement but who are putting in their papers effective at the end of this month? Why are so many federal workers suddenly very nervous in the civil service? Some, maybe many,... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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SOTU reactions & more: We have a triple-header on this Your Turn radio show. Reporters Jory Heckman and Nicole Ogrysko will talk about plans to decentralize federal operations based in the D.C. area and the outlook for feds in 2018. Morning Drive anchor Tom Temin... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Your benefits package from A to Z: Do you know whats in your federal benefits package? If not you should. Federal benefits expert Tammy Flanagan will explain why when she joins host Mike Causey on this weeks Your Turn. by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Open season with Walton Francis by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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FERS & CSRS: What's next?: FERS & CSRS: What's next? by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Tracking the retirement tsunami: For many years experts have predicted that the government was facing an immediate brain drain. A "retirement tsunami" that would leave Uncle Sam without institutional memory and operating without the help of long-time experts and... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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The TSP: Are the law of averages on your side?: When it comes to the federal Thrift Savings Plan, the average annual returns don’t tell you everything because TSP stock funds do not have many “average” years. “The typical ways to view TSP returns is to look at the total return over a... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Are retirement changes coming in 2017/18?: Congress and the White House are considering several proposals to slim down or eliminate portions of the federal retirement program. Will they pass and if so, how will they affect you? Find out when NARFE Legislative Director Jessica Klement... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Switching partners? How about switching health plans?: Every year Uncle Sam holds an open season, when federal workers, retirees and their survivors can update, enroll in or change their benefits package. by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Tips for protecting your retirement nest egg: Are you excited, dazzled and worried sometimes at the same time by the stock market boom? Are you concerned about what many experts say is a long-overdue market correction? Do you still have the occasional nightmare about the Great Recession?... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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TSP: A year in review: This week on Your Turn, certified financial planner Arthur Stein joins host Mike Causey to talk about the Thrift Savings Plan and how to grow your retirement nest egg. He said returns were excellent for all the TSP stock funds last year,... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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Is it time to change your health plan?: Most feds will stay in the same health plan theyve been in for years. Maybe even decades. Walton Francis, editor of Consumers Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees, says thats a mistake. Francis says all of the plans are... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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The new, improved TSP: What does it mean for you?: When they leave or retire from the government, just over half of Thrift Savings Plan participants move most or all of their TSP balances someplace else. This despite the fact that the TSP has some of the lowest administrative fees in the... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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The ‘7 rules’ of retirement: When people close in on their retirement date many become anxious about life after a steady, bi-weekly paycheck. The old Civil Service Retirement System provided a much more generous pension/annuity than the Federal Employees Retirement... by Your Turn with Mike Causey
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