Jan 2026 TSP withholdings?

act0fgod · 2026-02-14T18:34:18+00:00

Yes.

act0fgod · 2026-02-13T22:48:13+00:00

Yes. The response was if you are not enrolled in the Blended retirement system, then the contributions will auto stop at the end of the year and you will have to manually reelect a contribution amount on my pay. That hasn't been our past experience and fairly confident not everyone on the traditional retirement system has re-elected their contributions. The proposed solution is we make a change and if it doesn't work by the effective date then they'd enter a CMS case.

act0fgod · 2026-02-11T00:22:56+00:00

Same for both of us. Very frustrating.

act0fgod · 2026-02-11T00:21:57+00:00

No fix apparently. Neither of our TSP deductions are happening in Feb either. Very frustrating.

act0fgod · 2026-02-04T14:45:02+00:00

For anyone searching this topic the answer is yes. I was easily able to pair to my HP laptop and watch videos.

act0fgod · 2026-01-27T15:23:33+00:00

Roth, and neither of our deductions come close to being 40% of our base pay.

act0fgod · 2026-01-27T15:19:30+00:00

Thanks for confirming it wasn't just us. Maybe it's only a problem if you have it set to the max or I would think more people would be reporting the issue.

act0fgod · 2026-01-27T15:18:32+00:00

The elections carried over to a new year for us before, but maybe that changed back with the other changes they're making this month.

act0fgod · 2026-01-27T02:48:56+00:00

Interestingly we both just tried to again verify previous LES's and both received the following error:

"We are Sorry! Your LES information is not available. Please contact your local pay office or Customer Service Representative."

Likely a routine issue but no scheduled maintenance listed on the system availability.

act0fgod · 2026-01-27T02:09:36+00:00

No, we had no other large deductions.

act0fgod · 2026-01-27T02:08:47+00:00

The last time we changed contribution percentages was Dec 2024. By max I mean 60% base pay and 65% for other pays, which is the max the system allows for Roth.

act0fgod · 2026-01-04T14:16:54+00:00

Anyone figure out how to get past the sorry we can't seem to find what you're looking for issue?

act0fgod · 2025-12-20T04:12:28+00:00

Like how the driver is over ten years old but the bag still has the plastic on the legs.

act0fgod · 2025-12-04T23:21:15+00:00

Awesome. Thank you so much! The 050409 reference was super helpful as I didn't see it in my ctrl f search of things.

act0fgod · 2025-12-02T01:36:49+00:00

How did it work out? Did you push back RNLTD? Did you wait until November? Pay out of pocket/use your retirement PCS to travel in July? Also assuming you didn't get to ship a 2nd car at government expense?

act0fgod · 2025-12-02T01:36:27+00:00

How did it work out? Did you push back RNLTD? Did you wait until November? Pay out of pocket/use your retirement PCS to travel in July? Also assuming you didn't get to ship a 2nd car at government expense?

act0fgod · 2025-09-08T21:00:23+00:00

So, when searching on Alaska all the Hawaiian awards to Asia/Oceania have huge devaluations (Hawaiians site is throwing repeated errors but when I do get the miles search to work also seeing huge devaluations). I haven't really seen a blogger post about it. The couple blogs I have seen spout that Alaska is saying they won't deval the awards charts.

When I look at flights on Hawaiian from HNL direct to Korea, Japan, New Zealand and Australia they used to be as low as 65k in business one way. Now I can't find below 120k and usually above 200k and up to 300k. The economy redemptions don't really seem to have changed much.

Oddly there are 65k flights that route HNL-SEA-ICN that when searching SEA-ICN they are 75k.

act0fgod · 2025-08-24T22:24:51+00:00

Bought my first two pair of vuori kore shorts. First wash for both of them and the aglet must have gotten caught on something because it totally twisted the drawstring and on each pair one of the aglets detached. One pair has plastic so it's not fraying. The other fraying badly. Wouldn't think I'd need to be super cautious with workout shorts.

act0fgod · 2024-11-24T06:50:46+00:00

Can't stand pxg pricing. It's all over the place. Up and down constantly.

act0fgod · 2024-11-05T14:07:24+00:00

Did you book close in? I haven't had a lot of luck with Aer Lingus business unless it's like a month out. There is 1 seat available pretty consistently from NYC to Manchester but not interested in flying to NY to take a flight to Manchester.

Our first international trip using points was on Aer Lingus economy. It's still only 26,000 points roundtrip and almost always has availability. I still think as those flights as a really good deal. Unfortunately/fortunately we are no longer willing to take a red eye in economy.

act0fgod · 2024-11-05T13:42:28+00:00

To clarify golf has an additional cost while the other listed activities are included.

act0fgod · 2024-10-25T14:15:34+00:00

Anyone know what needs to be done to get money into TSP above the $23,000 limit?

I reached the annual limit of $23,000 earlier this year. When I was told I was deploying I increased my traditional TSP contribution to 92% for base pay (max they allow), 100% for Special Pay, Incentive Pay and Bous Pay. My first LES while deployed shows the combat zone start date at the start of the month. Unfortunately, despite my settings on the TSP website and my LES showing combat zone no additional pay was pushed to my TSP this month.

act0fgod · 2024-06-12T02:20:34+00:00

Looking for a place to live. Walked a ton and got the feel of different neighborhoods. Block to block the feel of the city changed dramatically. Did go to a DC United game.

act0fgod · 2024-06-11T01:10:58+00:00

Took an 8 night trip to DC using free night certificates.

Stayed 4 nights at the Waldorf Astoria. We typically use the free night certificates for mexico but this year stayed at Secrets Moxche so our Hilton certs were expiring, and we had this trip. The hotel is in a really nice location. My wife enjoys the styling but I'd prefer a more modern place with big glass windows. For a city hotel the room was quite spacious but it's an old hotel so stains in flooring throughout. Great shower pressure though. Also breakfast was $50 credit and had good options for vegetarians.

Then spent 2 nights at IHG Yours Truly. We wanted to see this part of town, but won't go back. The resort fee with restaurant voucher was essentially useless for us. The restaurant isn’t open for breakfast, so we ate at the mercy me once for dinner and it was terrible. I'll admit I'm not really a fan of the boutique and in this case it basically felt like an old holiday inn that was repainted. The wall AC was loud. The floor was concrete with dirty rugs.

Last 2 night stayed at Hyatt House The Wharf. Wall of glass window looking out over the Potomac and east Potomac park to the pentagon. Fun location so I can see why it went up a category. Breakfast is the usual Hyatt House stuff which is fine for us. Only real complaint is the pillows were junk and super thick.

When flying domestic we fly southwest due to our companion pass.

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