Potential bad news for Federal Employees who take Public Transit- The IRS recently announced that the maximum permissible mass transit benefit in Calendar Year 2014 is $130 (down from $245 in 2013). Continue reading
Happy Open Season, Feds!
It’s that time of year again where 95 percent of you do nothing and keep your existing health plan (for good reasons, see below).
For the minority of you who are considering switching plans, FEHB offers you the 3rd party tool PlanSmartChoice.com, which allows you to plug-in some assumptions about your family size and frequency of medical claims. If you’ve used PlanSmartChoice before, it retains the info you input from last year, which is nice. Here’s what it looks like for me: Continue reading
If you’re an investor (and anyone with a 401k plan is), you’ve heard of the “Lost Decade”- The first ten years of this century where investing in the DJIA or S&P 500 produced little or no returns. Recent media reports value the Government Shutdown’s lost productivity at upwards of $24 Billion, but I think it’s going to be more- Here’s why you’re about to see the “Lost Quarter” (remember, you read it here first on GubMints.com). Continue reading