Reliable rules for your retirement recordkeeping

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Tammy Flanagan

Retirement Counseling and Training www.retirefederal.com

This is an update to an article I wrote last year (and the year before) that provides tips and resources to transition from employee to annuitant and to catch up on some of the retirement planning that should have, but maybe didn’t, begin when you started your career. Here are some crucial tips for every stage of your federal career: Understand the parts of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS)

FERS An Overview of Your Benefits

Reliable rules for your retirement recordkeeping

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