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Will furloughed employees get paid? Congress will determine whether furloughed employees receive pay for the furlough period. Once Congress enacts an appropriation bill or continuing resolution, amended time and attendance time sheets will be requested. If my pay is insufficient to permit all deductions to be made, what is the order of precedence for deductions from my salary check?
The Loan Payment Coupon above can be completed online. Please enter all information on the coupon, including your complete TSP account number to help . The repayment amount is invested in your TSP account according to your You must send Form TSP, Loan Payment Coupon with your extra payments.
Some deductions that are based on the amount of your gross pay or basic pay will be reduced in size. Deductions from pay are taken in this order: After these deductions, is it possible that my check could be zero? Depending on the amount of basic pay received, and the obligations an individual employee may owe or have previously elected to contribute, it is possible the net resulting pay could be minimal or even zero.
Can I stop these deductions from coming out of my pay? Employees can access Employee Express EEX and make changes to their tax exemptions and various other deductions. Most changes are effective the following pay period. During a furlough period, how do I make payments for missed TSP loan deductions? In order to avoid a taxable distribution, employees must pay the missed payment amount directly to the TSP.
The Payroll Office cannot make up missed payments from the next pay check. How will my contribution to TSP for a specific amount be impacted?
In order to prevent this, excluding the last pay period of the year, employees may want to change their pay period contribution to a higher dollar amount. For additional information, agencies and employees should refer to the TSP website or contact their agency representative.
If you use an online banking service to make extra loan payments, be sure to refer to the Loan Payment Coupon to ensure that the information it requires gets included on your bank check. If any information is missing, the check will be returned.
Wednesday, September 25, 1: Without really putting numbers together, I'd say keep making the regular payments on the loan. Like Knight said your regular TSP deductions are tax deferred. With a little luck, the "profits" you earn on the money going into the TSP will be greater then the interest you pay on the loan.
To reiterate, OPM recommends exhausting all other loan options before taking out a loan from a Thrift Savings Plan account. Missing out on earnings: Have we come full circle? You are at: Retrieve Doc. Otherwise, your payment will be returned. LWOP provisions apply.
You can easily earn more then that. Now IF by chance you retire before the loan is paid off, someone correct me if I'm wrong here then IRS will count the outstanding balance as a distribution from the TSP and charge you normal income taxes no penalty if you've reached your MRA. Thursday, September 26, 8: I agree; do the catch up first and then pay your loan with regular amounts.
Just make sure the loan is paid off before you retire or the balance will be considered income by the tax man. You cannot post new topics in this forum. You cannot reply to topics in this forum. You cannot delete your posts in this forum. You cannot edit your posts in this forum. The others are pensions and Social Security.
Many people find substantial advantages to Thrift Savings Plan loans and opt in despite the OPM's suggestion to exhaust other options first. The negative implications of a TSP loan are considerable, and require as much—if not more—attention than the positives. To reiterate, OPM recommends exhausting all other loan options before taking out a loan from a Thrift Savings Plan account.
Government Careers Retirement Planning. By Michael Roberts. Low-interest rate: This fund is one of the funds available to invest in through the Thrift Savings Plan and is made up of government securities. The G Fund and other Thrift Savings Plan funds are used to create the investment mixes for target date funds available to plan participants. The G Fund typically has a rate of return of less than 2 percent. The rate used for a loan is the G Fund rate the day the loan is taken out.
A wide range of allowable loan amounts: