FERS Go Bag: Mapping Retirement – Navigating the Landscape
Item 5: Mapping Retirement – Navigating the Landscape One of my favorite lines is from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It comes from a conversation between Alice and the Cheshire Cat: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” – Alice. “That depends a good deal on where […]
FERS Go Bag: Who Are You Going to Call?
Item 4: Who are you going to call? Come on, 1980’s babies, where are you: who are you going to call? No, who? Remember when we told you that when you were in, you were a guest, but now that you are out, you are a pest. When was the last time you dialed someone’s […]
FERS Go Bag: FEHB – Your Best Benefit as a Federal Employee
Item 3: FEHB – your best benefit as a federal employee Federal Employee Health benefits are hands down the best benefits for federal employees—so good that Congress even has them! Do we sound jealous? Well, as civilians on the outside looking in, we are incredibly jealous of your health care benefits as federal employees—they are […]
FERS Go Bag: Your Official Personnel File
Item 2: Your Official Personnel File You need a complete and thorough copy of your Official Personnel File (OPF) in your FERS Go Bag—all of it, all the documents, everything. Remember that when you are in, you are a guest, but when you are out, you are a pest. The Official Personnel File (OPF) and […]