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OPM has recently learned of an aggressive marketing push targeting
Federal annuitants. Companies are offering a cash payment in
exchange for a portion, or all, of your future annuity payments
generally much less than their long-term worth, and typically
charging high interest rates and fees.

We have specifically received numerous phone calls from one company
in particular asking us to not just verify annuity amounts, but also
banking information, including routing numbers and account numbers.
Our suspicions were confirmed by our Inspector General’s office who
discovered this company is currently under investigation by the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

CFPB lists three things you can do to protect your retirement
annuity:

1. Avoid loans with high fees and interest. Pension advance companies
may not always advertise their fees and interest rates, but you will
certainly feel feel them in your bottom line. Before you sign
anything, learn what you are getting and how much you are giving up.

2. Don’t sign over control of your benefits. Companies sometimes arrange
for monthly payments to be automatically deposited in a newly created
bank account so the company can withdraw payments, fees and interest
charges from the account. This leaves you with little control.

3. Don’t buy life insurance that you don’t want or need
Pension advance companies sometimes
require consumers to sign up for life insurance
with the company as the consumer’s beneficiary. If you
sign up for life insurance with the pension advance
company as your beneficiary, you could end up
footing the bill, whether you know it or not.

Go to (https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/consumer-advisory
-3-pension-advance-traps-to-avoid/) for more information.

Also feel free to report any suspected scams to OPM’s Office of
Inspector General (OIG) at:

OIG Hotline Number

877-499-7295

Or Write to

OPM Office of the Inspector General
1900 E Street NW Room #6400
Washington, DC 20415-1100

Or Submit a Complaint Form

Hotline Complaint Form

‘Inside the FBI: New York’: First Promo & Premiere Date For Dick Wolf’s USA Network Docuseries

by Erik Pedersen

March 24, 2017 6:00pm
Dick Wolf has another new show coming — but this one’s not an NBC procedural. The docuseries Inside the FBI: New York will premiere at 10 PM Thursday, April 27, on USA Network, the NBCUniversal-owned net said today. It also released the first promo for the series; watch it below.

Wolf executive produces Inside the FBI: NY, which comes from Emmy-winning filmmaker Marc Levin. It takes an unprecedented look at the Bureau’s New York field office. “The threat’s always evolving, so we always have to be evolving,” one agent says. “At any moment, without warning, anybody is a potential threat.” Says another: “While we do care about what’s going on overseas, New York is home, and this is where I’m worried about. Any time something happens here, I take it personal.”

The FBI has been under a microscope in recent months, with Director James Comey’s decision on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal late in the election cycle and especially this week’s hearing before the House Intelligence Committee. On Monday, Comey confirmed that the Bureau is investigating Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia and also said the FBI has “no information” to support Trump’s charge that President Obama wiretapped him.

Said Wolf, the man behind NBC’s Law & Order and Chicago franchises, ‎”Marc and his team were embedded with the FBI’s flagship New York office for over a year, and his extraordinary access has resulted in a never-before-seen look at the lives and work of the FBI agents who keep Americans safe.”

Inside the FBI: New York is a co-production between Wolf Reality and Brick City TV. Tom Thayer and Marc Benjamin also serve as executive producers alongside Wolf and Levin.

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2017 Spring Board Meeting

The Wisconsin Chapter of the Society is pleased to once again host the Spring Board Meeting You must be logged in to see this information.

The winter issue of The Informant is available. Go to Publication/Current Issue to see. You must be a member of to see it.

The Society Spring Board meeting has been scheduled for April 19 (arrival date) to April 22 (departure date) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. More details will be provided in the near future as it becomes available. 

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The 2017 National Conference will be held September 14-17, 2017, in St. Augustine, Florida.

Click here for registration form.

Hotel Room Reservation Information:

Rate: $144 and upwards, based on availability plus taxes

The World Golf Village Renaissance

500 South Legacy Trail

St. Augustine, FL 32092

To reserve your room at the conference rate, contact 1-800-627-7468 and provide the Code FBIFBIA or Florida Crown chapter meeting. Rates are available three days prior and three days after the conference, based on availability.

The FBI’s National Name Check Program in Winchester, VA is seeking to identify former FBI employees who are interested in reemployment with the FBI as members of the FBI Reserve Service Program (RSP). Click here for the full announcement.