This is a question I get all the time. Am I contributing enough money to the Thrift Savings Plan, the 401(k)-style retirement program for federal employees? In other words, how much should you be ...

TSP is the Thrift Savings Plan. People who own this plan like to track the value of the plan over time using their Quicken accounting software. To accomplish this, you will need to import the ...

Effective 1 January 2015, military service members have to change the way they elect their Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) contributions via the military myPay system. If you do not update your elections, ...

If you are trying to maximize your Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) contributions for the calendar year, you've got to do some math to ensure that your contributions are properly organized in MyPay. In the ...

When a surface is so dirty that even a lengthy scrub session hasn’t made a difference, it might be time to turn to a powerful cleaning agent known as trisodium phosphate. That is, of course, if it’s ...

Starting January 1, 2026, Federal employees and retirees will be able to convert money from their traditional Thrift Savings ...

It wasn't so long ago that trisodium phosphate (TSP) was a go-to choice for tough cleaning jobs. In recent years, however, the popularity of TSP has waned. There are no complaints about its ...

In an effort to enhance security, the 3.8 million participants in the federal Thrift Savings Plan will no longer be identified by their Social Security numbers, officials for the retirement savings ...

T he Diary's mailbag has been stuffed for two weeks by thoughtful readers who think the White House is mixing apples and oranges when it suggests that the Thrift Savings Plan could serve as a possible ...