SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

The investment returns from equities would allow for the current level of benefits to be maintained without increasing the payroll tax.

A Roth option for the TSP will create an influx in tax monies by creating a financially beneficial alternative to the current tax deferred TSP option. Further, tax-free investment gains will create an incentive for more federal employees to invest.

For 2 similar programs in different agencies, let the primary site of one program be the secondary site for the other program, and visa versa. This will reduce or avoid investment and operations & maintenace costs from 4 sites to costs for 2 sites. Each site must be a little more robust, better documented, and scalable in time of disaster to temporarily take on the work load of the other program. Each program will... more »