The Educated Fed is a self-help book for federal employees who want to learn how to maximize their federal benefits for retirement. Inside you'll find answers you didn't even know you had questions for...With the help of a retired Department of Defense employee, Caine will walk you through all of the moving parts that are your federal benefits and show you which ones you have control of, which ones will make you money, and which ones could cost you.Even though we're in the information age, we've found out that an "informed" federal employee is not as well positioned as an "educated" federal employee. The Educated Fed aims to address the gap between information and real education that we observed in teaching hundreds of federal benefits workshops across the country for numerous agencies. Throughout this text, find out how your retirement could be affected by: -FERS & CSRS-SSB-FEGLI-FEHB-SSI-TSP-...and, perhaps most importantly, learn how it's possible to get a raise as you go into retirement.