By contributing to a Roth TSP while you’re deployed, you won’t pay taxes when you contribute or when you withdraw your earnings in retirement. Tax-free TSP contributions are one of thebest investment benefitsavailable to military members. Another great deployment TSP contribution benefit is the...
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If you’re in the military or a military retiree, you’ve probably used myPay at least once or twice. MyPay gives you 24/7 access to process many of your own pay transactions without lengthy forms, approval signatures or bugging your finance office. You can retrieve your monthly leave and...
Federal employees and members of the military have access to the Thrift Savings Plan, a retirement vehicle specifically designed for government workers. The TSP was created in 1986 as part of the Federal Employees Retirement System Act. Public sector workers may contribute to a TSP account, but t...
For example, when I was in the military, I had access to the government 401(k), theTSP. This very low-cost plan contains a foreign developed market index fund (I Fund) offered at a very low cost, as well as an extended market fund (S Fund) that is much cheaper than can be bough...
My sister from Kingman did manage to get here after a long trip and crossing the Hoover Dam (heavily guarded by the military by then). We were married with about half of the wedding party missing, but I am glad that we did for almost everyone said it was just what they needed. When...
You just got the money you put in there. That's all I left the military with was the money I put in my TSP. You had to stay 20 years to get anything else, to actually get a pension from the military. Now, you get that match. You have to take it with you if you leave early...
The divorce decree must say something to the effect of “the spouse is entitled to X percent of the participant’s TSP balance” somewhere in the document or one of its appendices. If it does not, then the participant’s spouse receives nothing, regardless of any other agreement that was...
This recipe is from Robyn Stone, Add A PinchMake sure you cream the butter with the sugar so your frosting will not be grainy. I added a bit of milk with the cream as my frosting needed loosening. I also added a 1/4 tsp. of vanilla paste. This recipe yields so much frosting that...
I spent years tracing names and dates and newspaper clippings and church bulletins and military records… and I’ve put together some pretty comprehensive pictures of these people who formed the people who formed me. Through genetic testing, I have found “family” in unexpected places, with ...