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CLEARLY UNDERSTAND YOUR
FEDERAL RETIREMENT BENEFITS

Get straight-forward, candid info & answers.

CLEARLY UNDERSTAND YOUR
FEDERAL RETIREMENT BENEFITS

Get straight-forward, candid info & answers.

You know all those questions you never got a good answer to?
You’ll get them here.

 

Register for the webinar below

“(This was) the best, most well explained information regarding the aspects of preparing for retirement.”
-Judy, NASA

FEDERAL RETIREMENT NAVIGATION WEBINAR

(FREE / NO COST)

Choose either date

Thursday, December 17th,
9am (Pacific)

ABOUT THIS WEBINAR

5-Stars

4.9 OUT OF 5 STARS

(as rated by participants)

“I’ve been to many workshops, but this is, by far, the best retirement workshop I have ever been to.”

– Bella, VA

Reactions to this webinar from actual participants

“Awesome webinar and a must take.”

– Deborah, DHS

“I wish I had learned this 20 years ago.”

-(Too many people to count)

“I thought I knew my benefits.  I had no idea…”

-Glenn, VA

“(This) was phenomenal.”

-Cynthia, VA

“Register for this webinar ASAP.”

-Pierre, FEMA

“Everyone needs this seminar. It is a must do.”

-Kim, CBP

“Kevin was very clear in all explanations. The presentation was very organized and detailed.”

-Joyce, VA

“I will recommend. Highly informative. Presentation was balanced. Not pushy.”

-Laura, VA

“(You) talked about things that the Fed. government doesn’t tell people.”

-Mary, Fish & Wildlife

This was an awesome presentation!! I’m telling anyone who will listen to sign up.

-Bert, FEMA

“We went to a day-long workshop a few years ago and today’s webinar was more specific to our questions about retirement.”

-Michelle, VAMC

“Excellent Webinar – the best I’ve attended, and I’ve been to a few.”

– Rick, USGS

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WEBINAR TOPICS

This webinar is 3 hours of jam-packed information.  Be prepared to be engaged the entire time, taking notes, learning, asking questions and getting answers, and most of all, supercharge your retirement plan.

Principles of Retirement

General Principles of Retirement

  • Understanding how much money you really need in retirement and when you will and won’t get it
  • Getting you could have versus getting what the government will give you by default
  • How every person is different and you can’t use your co-worker’s good idea for you
  • Do what is best for your beneficiaries (HINT: most federal workers do this WRONG!)
  • The value of knowing what your true numbers are (not just what the government says it will give you)
  • AND knowing what those numbers mean (which are often very different than what you would think)

General Principles of Retirement

  • Understanding how much money you really need in retirement and when you will and won’t get it
  • Getting you could have versus getting what the government will give you by default
  • How every person is different and you can’t use your co-worker’s good idea for you
  • Do what is best for your beneficiaries (HINT: most federal workers do this WRONG!)
  • The value of knowing what your true numbers are (not just what the government says it will give you)
  • AND knowing what those numbers mean (which are often very different than what you would think)

FERS / CSRS
Pensions

  • When are you eligible to retire? (HINT: It’s NOT based on your SCD)

  • Different rules for Special Provision (Law Enforcement, Firefighters, Air Traffic Controllers) 

  • How much pension the government will give you vs. how much you will actually get

  • What is included in your HIGH-3
  • Buying time back

  • How sick leave and annual leave affect the amount of pension you will receive
  • Cost of Living Adjustments and how it’s not quite what you thought it was going to be
  • How federal and state taxes may affect you
  • The best day & month for you to retire
  • How long it will be before getting a full pension check
  • AND MUCH MORE…

Special Retirement
Supplement

  • Who is eligible?
  • How much might you receive and when will you be cut off
  • How taxes and COLAs affect the SRS
  • Working and receiving this benefit (HINT: It’s usually a no-go)
  • What questions you should ask to take full advantage of this program
  • AND MORE…

Social Security

  • Will it be there when you need it?
  • When you can start drawing SS vs. when you should
  • How FRA, PIA, COLA & Taxes will change how much you get
  • How not to miss out on hundreds of thousands of dollars of SS over your lifetime (no joke) and how people unknowingly do it every day
  • How spouses bring in another set of strategies and opportunities
  • What questions you should ask to make sure you get as much money as possible
  • AND MORE…

Federal Employee
Health Benefits

  • Making changes before retirement vs. in retirement
  • Differing rules of FEDVIP (dental & vision)
  • Adding family members before and after retirement
  • Participating in open seasons after retirement
  • How much the government will pay
  • How FEHB cost doesn’t go up, but your cost will
  • Example increases over the last 10 years
  • Bonuses for federal couples
  • How Medicare may or may not work with FEHB
  • Medicare’s penalty and how to avoid it
  • Should you choose FEHB or Medicare or neither or both
  • How TriCare fits in the picture
  • What questions you should ask to make good decisions
  • AND MUCH MORE…

Long Term
Care

  • Overall understanding of why long-term care is needed
  • How many will need it and for how long
  • Who provides long-term care and how long they provide it (NOTE: this will shock you)
  • Considering VA & FEHB & TriCare
  • Types of LTC coverage
  • What the federal plan looks like
  • What it takes to be accepted
  • What FLTCIP covers and what it doesn’t
  • Decisions you need to make when buying FLTCIP if you need it
  • Details on waiting periods, satisfying timelines, and exemptions from premiums
  • What questions you need to ask to make a good decision
  • AND MORE…

Survivor’s
Benefits

  • Why this is one of the most misunderstood benefits & difficult to plan for
  • Cost before vs. after retirement
  • How to qualify for SBP
  • How not opting in can seriously affect your loved ones
  • The differences and similarities of SBP and life insurance
  • Questions you will need to ask yourself to make sure you do this one right
  • AND MORE…

FEGLI – Life
Insurance

  • What FEGLI is and is not
  • Understanding of when costs go up
  • The four FEGLI options and limits to FEGLI
  • Understanding of when you may want FEGLI compared to private life insurance options
  • Questions you should ask to make sure you get the best value for your hard-earned money
  • AND MORE…

TSP – Thrift
Savings Plan

  • The phases of the TSP
  • Contributions and matching  and funds how to do it right
  • The mistaken understanding that almost all federal employees have about growing their money
  • How Lifecycle funds work and how they could be good or bad for you
  • The two questions you need to ask to earn as much as possible in your TSP
  • The difference between Roth and Traditional TSP allocations
  • How to take out money how & when you want it
  • TSP Modernization Act pros and cons
  • Six options for your money after retirement
  • What the TSP won’t do
  • Strategies to keep your money or grow it
  • What questions you should be asking to make your TSP work for you today and in retirement
  • AND MUCH MORE…
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WEBINAR TOPICS

This webinar is 3 hours of jam-packed information.  Be prepared to be engaged the entire time, taking notes, learning, asking questions and getting answers, and most of all, supercharge your retirement plan.

General Principles of Retirement

  • Understanding how much money you really need in retirement and when you will and won’t get it
  • Getting you could have versus getting what the government will give you by default
  • How every person is different and you can’t use your co-worker’s good idea for you
  • Do what is best for your beneficiaries (HINT: most federal workers do this WRONG!)
  • The value of knowing what your true numbers are (not just what the government says it will give you)
  • AND knowing what those numbers mean (which are often very different than what you would think)

FERS / CSRS
Pensions

  • When are you eligible to retire? (HINT: It’s NOT based on your SCD)

  • Different rules for Special Provision (Law Enforcement, Firefighters, Air Traffic Controllers) 

  • How much pension the government will give you vs. how much you will actually get

  • What is included in your HIGH-3
  • Buying time back

  • How sick leave and annual leave affect the amount of pension you will receive
  • Cost of Living Adjustments and how it’s not quite what you thought it was going to be
  • How federal and state taxes may affect you
  • The best day & month for you to retire
  • How long it will be before getting a full pension check
  • AND MUCH MORE…

Special Retirement
Supplement

  • Who is eligible?
  • How much might you receive and when will you be cut off
  • How taxes and COLAs affect the SRS
  • Working and receiving this benefit (HINT: It’s usually a no-go)
  • What questions you should ask to take full advantage of this program
  • AND MORE…

Social Security

  • Will it be there when you need it?
  • When you can start drawing SS vs. when you should
  • How FRA, PIA, COLA & Taxes will change how much you get
  • How not to miss out on hundreds of thousands of dollars of SS over your lifetime (no joke) and how people unknowingly do it every day
  • How spouses bring in another set of strategies and opportunities
  • What questions you should ask to make sure you get as much money as possible
  • AND MORE…

Federal Employee
Health Benefits

  • Making changes before retirement vs. in retirement
  • Differing rules of FEDVIP (dental & vision)
  • Adding family members before and after retirement
  • Participating in open seasons after retirement
  • How much the government will pay
  • How FEHB cost doesn’t go up, but your cost will
  • Example increases over the last 10 years
  • Bonuses for federal couples
  • How Medicare may or may not work with FEHB
  • Medicare’s penalty and how to avoid it
  • Should you choose FEHB or Medicare or neither or both
  • How TriCare fits in the picture
  • What questions you should ask to make good decisions
  • AND MUCH MORE…

Long Term
Care

  • Overall understanding of why long-term care is needed
  • How many will need it and for how long
  • Who provides long-term care and how long they provide it (NOTE: this will shock you)
  • Considering VA & FEHB & TriCare
  • Types of LTC coverage
  • What the federal plan looks like
  • What it takes to be accepted
  • What FLTCIP covers and what it doesn’t
  • Decisions you need to make when buying FLTCIP if you need it
  • Details on waiting periods, satisfying timelines, and exemptions from premiums
  • What questions you need to ask to make a good decision
  • AND MORE…

Survivor’s
Benefits

  • Why this is one of the most misunderstood benefits & difficult to plan for
  • Cost before vs. after retirement
  • How to qualify for SBP
  • How not opting in can seriously affect your loved ones
  • The differences and similarities of SBP and life insurance
  • Questions you will need to ask yourself to make sure you do this one right
  • AND MORE…

FEGLI – Life
Insurance

  • What FEGLI is and is not
  • Understanding of when costs go up
  • The four FEGLI options and limits to FEGLI
  • Understanding of when you may want FEGLI compared to private life insurance options
  • Questions you should ask to make sure you get the best value for your hard-earned money
  • AND MORE…

TSP – Thrift
Savings Plan

  • The phases of the TSP
  • Contributions and matching  and funds how to do it right
  • The mistaken understanding that almost all federal employees have about growing their money
  • How Lifecycle funds work and how they could be good or bad for you
  • The two questions you need to ask to earn as much as possible in your TSP
  • The difference between Roth and Traditional TSP allocations
  • How to take out money how & when you want it
  • TSP Modernization Act pros and cons
  • Six options for your money after retirement
  • What the TSP won’t do
  • Strategies to keep your money or grow it
  • What questions you should be asking to make your TSP work for you today and in retirement
  • AND MUCH MORE…

(There is no cost for this webinar.)

“I strongly recommend this presentation.”

-Terrance, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Do you know the answers to these questions?

(because most federal employees don’t, but you will after the webinar)
Q-Protect-TSP

What has happened to your TSP lately?! You don’t want to time your retirement when the market tanks.  How can you grow your money as much as possible yet still protect it from disappearing?

Sure, they say the price of your FEHB won’t go up just because you retire.  That’s true.  But it will cost you more.  Is this a contradiction?  No, instead it is something most employees don’t understand.

Q-health-care-costs
Q-Taxes

Most people know they will be taxed, but they don’t know how much and on what. And they don’t know that they could avoid taxes in some areas altogether. How do you make sure you keep as much of your own money as possible?

Have you ever asked yourself, “At what point will my pension check only cover my FEHB?”  Have you ever thought that this would be a question you need to ask?

Q-FEHB-alone
Q-full-pension

Yes, you will get a pension check.  But you won’t get everything you deserve right after you retire. How much of your pension check will they give you? And when will you get your full pension check?

You know how much money you will receive.  But that amount will differ from the amount that will actually go into your bank account.  What is the amount you can count on to use in retirement?

Q-Into-Bank
Q-Medicare

One of the most often questions we are asked is this one.  Which should you do? or should you do both?  Or Neither?  What are the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy?

This is probably the biggest question of all:
WHAT QUESTIONS SHOULD YOU BE ASKING?
Because you don’t know what you don’t know.

Q-should-be-asking

Do you know the answers to these questions?

(because most federal employees don’t, but you will after the webinar)
Q-Protect-TSP

What has happened to your TSP lately?! You don’t want to time your retirement when the market tanks.  How can you grow your money as much as possible yet still protect it from disappearing?

Q-health-care-costs

Sure, they say the price of your FEHB won’t go up just because you retire.  That’s true.  But it will cost you more.  Is this a contradiction?  No, instead it is something most employees don’t understand.

Q-Taxes

Most people know they will be taxed, but they don’t know how much and on what. And they don’t know that they could avoid taxes in some areas altogether. How do you make sure you keep as much of your own money as possible?

Q-FEHB-alone

Have you ever asked yourself, “At what point will my pension check only cover my FEHB?”  Have you ever thought that this would be a question you need to ask?

Q-full-pension

Yes, you will get a pension check.  But you won’t get everything you deserve right after you retire. How much of your pension check will they give you? And when will you get your full pension check?

Q-Into-Bank

You know how much money you will receive.  But that amount will differ from the amount that will actually go into your bank account.  What is the amount you can count on to use in retirement?

Q-Medicare

One of the most often questions we are asked is this one.  Which should you do? or should you do both?  Or Neither?  What are the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy?

Q-should-be-asking

This is probably the biggest question of all:
WHAT QUESTIONS SHOULD YOU BE ASKING?
Because you don’t know what you don’t know.

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We want to make sure your questions are answered and you have a personalized experience. We limit the virtual room size so you feel comfortable asking questions.

PARTICIPANTS REVIEWS

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Excellent Webinar – the best I’ve attended, and I’ve been to a few.


“(The presenters) did an excellent job and worked well together… Great job gentlemen! I enjoyed your webinar. It was well organized and made it easy to pay attention during the whole thing.”

 

“I’ve been to many workshops over the years and this was, by far, the best one I have ever attended.”

PARTICIPANTS REVIEWS

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Excellent Webinar – the best I’ve attended, and I’ve been to a few.


“(The presenters) did an excellent job and worked well together… Great job gentlemen! I enjoyed your webinar. It was well organized and made it easy to pay attention during the whole thing.”

 

“I’ve been to many workshops over the years and this was, by far, the best one I have ever attended.”

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DETAILS

 

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  • Fed Pilot is a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB). We have an outstanding reputation for partnering with federal agencies and delivering high quality, engaging education.

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  • Fed Pilot is not affiliated with the federal government.

  • At the manager’s discretion, you may use this SF-182 to request time off for training.