What You Decide to do With Your FEHB at Retirement is Your Decision…..
The best gift one human being can give to another is the gift of knowledge and information. As you get closer and closer to retirement, you may come across a myriad of discussions about whether you should keep your FEHB when you become eligible for Medicare or whether you should suspend your FEHB or wave goodbye to it. Give your friends, your colleagues, and even give yourself, the knowledge you need to make the best FEHB and Medicare decisions.
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Don’t shy away from reading and listening because you can always pick up some good tips, but remember to educate yourself on the facts – a very key ingredient to ensuring that you retire well. Get a good handle on what your health care goals are for retirement and beyond and whether FEHB fits within those plans. Speak to a professional who is an expert in your benefits and determine how you want to reach those goals and what is the best fit for what you and your family need. As you analyze the business of your life – it becomes urgently important to distinguish between what is required for you to survive and what is simply a matter of what is pleasing.
There is a vast difference between need and want the decision will boil down to what you can afford. That difference will become more and more vivid as you paint a picture, as only you can, of what you want that picture to represent for you and retiring well and your health should be something that you don’t skimp on. Gather, analyze, evaluate all the information on FEHB that you can, along with all of the resources available to you so that you can make an informed decision that has the flexibility to land you in the place that fits your retirement needs to retire well..
P. S. Always Remember to Share What You Know.
