Editing Q&A Access (section)

=== How to Setup TSP ===
The federal government's terminology for the <u>career</u> employee's retirement fund is the [https://www.tsp.gov/ TSP] or Thrift Savings Plan. In LiteBlue navigate to PostalEASE. Enter your credentials and then choose <b>Continue</b> from the disclaimer page. The following page allows you to adjust the percentage of your pay that gets contributed to your TSP. By default when you become a career employee the government sets the contribution at 5%. If you want to setup additional retirement accounts such as IRA, both traditional and Roth are availble the option will show on this page. The government also contributes to your TSP each payroll if you contribute at least 5%. If you update any settings choose <b>Validate</b> to submit the changes. A ticket page will generate showing when the update changes will go into effect.
</p><p>LiteBlue provides an education page on [https://liteblue.usps.gov/humanresources/workforceconnection/tsp-whats-it-about.shtml TSP Benefits] and since TSP is a non-Agency specific federal retirement program and it is accessible independent of LiteBlue. The independent page is where you setup planning for retirement and how you want your TSP funds invested until you retire.
----