2026 WCPG WEBINAR & EVENT CALENDAR

Embark on your retirement planning journey with ‘The Federal Benefits Blueprint: Building Blocks of Prosperity,’ the inaugural session of our ‘FEDucated’ series. This comprehensive webinar is tailored for federal employees seeking a deep understanding of their FERS, CSRS & Special Provision retirement benefits.

Join us for the inaugural session of the 2025 ‘FEDucated’ series! This comprehensive benefits webinar is tailored for federal employees seeking to walk away empowered, with the knowledge and confidence to build a strong foundation for your retirement prosperity.

Whether you’re just starting your federal career or approaching retirement, the 8-Part FEDucated Web Series is the Public Sector’s premier financial empowerment opportunity! Attending these complimentary courses will deepen your financial understanding and enhance your retirement planning prowess!

Claiming Strategies, Spousal Planning, and System Realities

Social Security is one of the most misunderstood—and most emotionally charged—retirement benefits federal employees face.
This session goes beyond “when should I file?” to examine how Social Security integrates with FERS benefits, pensions, and household income planning. We’ll explore spousal and survivor benefits, coordination with the FERS Supplement, taxation thresholds, provisional income, and the real implications of projected system changes—not headlines or fear-based speculation. For many households, the filing decision can impact hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of retirement. This session helps you understand your options, tradeoffs, and risks so Social Security becomes a strategic asset—not a guessing game.

If you’re married, nearing retirement, or concerned about benefit reductions, this session is essential.

Accumulation Decisions That Shape Retirement Flexibility

Your Thrift Savings Plan is likely your largest retirement asset – but most federal employees manage it on autopilot.
This session is designed specifically for federal employees who are still working and focused on building their TSP with intention. We’ll break down how contribution strategy, fund selection, tax treatment, and time horizon all work together – and why decisions made during your career directly impact taxes, income options, and risk exposure later in retirement.
Rather than chasing performance or reacting to market headlines, this session emphasizes structure: how to align your TSP with your career stage, risk tolerance, and long-term retirement goals. We’ll also discuss common accumulation mistakes, misconceptions around lifecycle funds, and how to think about Roth vs. traditional contributions in a changing tax environment.

If you want your TSP to work for you – now and in retirement – this session provides the framework to do it with confidence.

Income, Taxes, Benefits – and the Cost of Waiting
Retirement timing is rarely just a math problem.

This session examines the real financial, tax, and lifestyle consequences of delaying – or accelerating – your retirement date. We’ll break down how working one more year affects pension calculations, Social Security timing, tax brackets, savings accumulation, and opportunity cost.

For some, staying longer meaningfully strengthens the plan. For others, it creates unnecessary tax exposure or delays the life they’ve worked toward. This session helps you evaluate the decision objectively, using structure instead of emotion.
If you’re asking “Should I stay or should I go?” – this session gives you the framework to answer it.

Longevity, Care Costs, and Household Outcomes

Long-term care planning isn’t just about aging—it’s about protecting the people you leave behind.This session explores how longevity, health events, and care needs affect survivor income, lifestyle sustainability, and legacy outcomes. Using real-world household scenarios, we’ll examine what happens when care costs collide with fixed incomes—and why survivor planning deserves as much attention as investment planning.

We’ll also discuss why government benefits alone often fall short, how risk pooling works, and what planning levers exist to reduce the financial and emotional burden on spouses and families.

If protecting your spouse and preserving independence matters to you, this conversation is unavoidable.

“Navigate the intricate relationship between taxes and your Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), in our sixth session of the ‘FEDucated’ retirement series ‘Tax Tactics & Your TSP: Principles of Proactive Planning.’ This pivotal webinar is tailored for federal employees who seek to optimize their TSP for both tax efficiency and growth potential.

‘Tax Tactics & Your TSP’ is not just about understanding taxes; it’s about leveraging this knowledge to empower you to make smarter financial decisions. Equip yourself with the tools and strategies to make the most of your TSP, balancing tax efficiency with long term growth.”

Whether you’re just starting your federal career or approaching retirement, the 8-Part FEDucated Web Series is the Public Sector’s premier financial empowerment opportunity! Attending these complimentary courses will deepen your financial understanding and enhance your retirement planning prowess!

From Accumulation to Readiness—Before and After the Paychecks Stop

The final years of work aren’t just about saving more—they’re about repositioning what you’ve already built.
This session is designed for federal employees approaching retirement who need to shift their Thrift Savings Plan from growth-focused accumulation toward income readiness, risk management, and flexibility. Strategies that worked earlier in your career can introduce new risks as retirement approaches—especially if changes are delayed until after separation.
We’ll examine how market exposure, tax positioning, and alignment of assets with time horizons should evolve, when eligible employees may begin strategically repositioning or accessing TSP assets while still working, and how retirement planning differs between employer-sponsored plans like the TSP and IRAs once income and control matter more.

If retirement is on the horizon, this session helps you stress-test your TSP for the next chapter – before the paychecks stop and the margin for error erodes.

Turning Savings into a Sustainable Income – Saving is optional. Spending is not.

This capstone session focuses on the most critical transition in retirement: converting accumulated savings into a reliable, tax-efficient income stream you can enjoy with confidence. We’ll examine TSP withdrawal strategies, coordination with pensions and Social Security, managing taxes year by year, and adjusting withdrawals as markets and life evolve.
The goal isn’t just income – it’s making sure you don’t end up with too much life at the end of your money.
This is where theory meets execution – rubber meets the road – and where many plans either succeed or fail.

If retirement income feels more complex than accumulation ever did, this CAPSTONE EVENT brings it all together.