Conversely, had you had 100 % of your private accounts invested in an S&P 500 indexed fund or invested
all of your TSP account in the C Fund just before the last recession in 2008 you would have experienced more than a 50 % drop in value.
I retired December 31, 2004 and currently have the majority
of my TSP account invested in the L Income fund which invests 74 % in the G Fund, 6 % F Fund, 11.2 % C Fund, 2.8 % S Fund and 5 % in the I fund.
If 80 %
of your TSP account was in your traditional balance and 20 % in your Roth balance, and you elected monthly withdrawals of $ 2,000, you would receive $ 1,600 from your traditional balance and $ 400 from your Roth balance each month.
Although you can allocate as little or as much
of your TSP account to an L Fund as you want, TSP administrators recommend allocating your entire retirement TSP account to a given L Fund to achieve the optimal investment mix.
After retirement federal annuitants can transfer all or a part
of their TSP account to a professional financial management firm or to a self managed retirement account with companies like Fidelity and Vanguard where many more investment options are available.
An unpaid TSP loan may delay disbursement
of the TSP account balance.
Not exact matches
When you rollover any investment
account that hasn't yet been taxed (
TSP, traditional IRA, 401k) to an after - tax investment
account, such as a Roth IRA, taxes must be paid to Uncle Sam at the time
of the rollover.
If you leave a minimum balance
of at least $ 200 in
TSP and keep the funds in a pretax
account (traditional IRA), you will be able to roll funds back into
TSP if you elect to do so.
Your
account will have to be distributed to the beneficiary (ies) you indicate on Form
TSP - 3, Designation
of Beneficiary.»
When a spouse is determined to be a beneficiary
of part or all
of a civilian or uniformed services
account, the
TSP will establish a beneficiary participant
account in the spouse's name if the spouse's inherited share is $ 200 or more.
The expansion
of Roth
accounts marches on as the Thrift Savings Plan (affectionately known as the
TSP), serving some 3.3 million employees
of the federal government, announces it has completed the work to make Roth
accounts available in this plan.
Prior to requesting an IRA rollover from a Thrift Savings Plan (
TSP)
account, which is a retirement plan for military or civilian employees
of the U.S. government, consider whether such rollover is appropriate for you.
If you leave your money in the
TSP (or another employer sponsored retirement
account), you will not be subject to the early withdrawal penalty if you separated from your job in the year in which you reached the age
of 55 or later.
Congress added a little more confusion in 2016 when a change was made so that special category federal employees (i.e., law enforcement officers, firefighters, Customs and Border Protection Officers, Air Traffic Controllers, Supreme Court and Capitol Police Officers, Nuclear Materials Couriers, and DSS Special Agents in the State Department) had a dividing line
of 50, rather than 55 for penalty free withdrawals from their
TSP accounts.
Be aware this if you are thinking
of rolling your
TSP account over to an IRA and plan on taking withdrawals from that IRA prior to reaching 59 1/2.
An individual could implement the 4 % rule within a
TSP account by using the withdrawal choice called substantially equal monthly payments
of a fixed dollar amount.
The Thrift Investment Board is beginning to act like any private sector group
of fund managers, in that they want us to keep our money in the
TSP once we separate as well as to roll money into the
TSP if we have any money in qualified plans or qualifying
accounts.
The implications
of student loan interest deductions and the traditional to Roth
TSP conversion are also on our minds, but we are not sure
of how to take into
account all these considerations.
You can move into your traditional
TSP account both transfers and rollovers
of tax - deferred money from traditional IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs and eligible employer plans.
The
TSP will accept into the Roth balance
of your
TSP transfers from Roth 401 (k) s, Roth 403 (b) s and Roth 457 (b) s — but you can't indirectly rollover Roth funds into your
TSP, and can't move money from a Roth IRA into your
TSP account.
They can open a retirement
account for you and assist with transferring all or a part
of your
TSP to a brokerage
account where you can purchase any mutual fund, stock, ETF, and bond if desired.
Some use the age based withdrawal option to transfer a part
of their
TSP to a private retirement
account that they can personally manage or to a financial planner to compare their performance and services.
According to the Thrift Savings Board, «When you are ready to withdraw all
of the money from your
TSP account, you can do it all at once, over a period
of time, or you can purchase an annuity that will make payments to you for life.
Expressed another way, this means that expenses charged to each
TSP account in 2014 were approximately 29 cents per $ 1,000
of investment or only $ 29 for each $ 100,000 in your
account.
That being said, there are no limitations on transferring your
TSP funds when eligible to a private sector ROTH
account outside
of your
TSP.
Similar to an IRA, the
TSP allows federal employees to contribute a percentage
of their annual income to a tax - deferred
account that will pay out along with annuity benefits upon retirement.
The
TSP is a contribution plan, which means that the amount
of funds available in the
account depends highly on the amount
of money the employee or employer contributes.
When you take a
TSP loan, your
TSP account will be reduced proportionately by the amount
of the loan.
These methods are covered in the
TSP publication, Withdrawing Your
TSP Account After Leaving Federal Service, which can be found in the «forms and publications» section
of the
TSP website.
The interest you pay goes back into your
TSP account, so you are, in effect, paying yourself for the use
of your money.
Hopefully the
TSP will afford us the opportunity to convert at least a portion
of our current
TSP account to a ROTH in the near future.
The
TSP part
of FERS is an
account that your agency automatically sets up for you.