A falling stock market is never a pleasant experience but if you are investing in the stock market it is going to happen. What does a falling stock market mean for your TSP

The TSP account became a Beneficiary Participant Account (BPA) upon the husband’s passing. The following year, the widow was forced to begin taking

By most metrics, TSP expense ratios are low but that doesn’t mean they’re the lowest available. I decided to do a comparison of TSP fund ratios against three major custodians

and TSP has failed miserably over the past few months at those. If I were to give a grade in the categories of convenience and access to your money

There is a lot of confusion regarding inherited IRAs, especially as they pertain to spousal inherited IRAs and TSP. What happens when a federal employee or retiree dies

Federal Employee Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) is one of the many benefits granted to federal employees. But what many employees fail to realize

This is one of the most common regrets I hear from people that are retiring. Why? Because they get to retirement and come to the realization that 100% of their retirement

The 5-year rule is one that often comes up in regard to Roth TSP and Roth IRAs. The 5-year rule states that the account has to be open for five years before withdrawals of earnings

Another important way to lower your taxes is to strategically give to charities. Charitable giving is a part of many people’s annual budget, but there are specific ways

What makes tax planning different in retirement is the fact that you have more control over your income. While employed, your salary is basically your income but

Spending the same amount of money every year in retirement isn’t very practical. A retiree’s fixed expenses should be

The Thrift Savings Plan is widely known as one of the best retirement plans available. It excels at being simple and having low cost, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some frustrating aspects to it. The decision to keep TSP in

It’s hard to understate the importance of timing and details when it comes to retirement distributions. Tax efficient distributions can only be done

Inflation is a hot topic this summer which has many federal employees wondering how it will impact them in retirement. Federal employees are very fortunate to get a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in retirement, however,

Federal employees have a large amount of guaranteed income they can count on as a steady stream of cash flow in retirement. Although it is possible