Episode transcript: [musical intro] Jenny Welcome back to Fund Your Future with DRS and on the podcast we certainly love to talk about preparing for retirement and some of the most common questions around retirement that we get are usually related to understanding Medicare. But luckily, Washington state has a great program that provides a…
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Episode 18 – Student loan forgiveness and PSLF
Episode transcript: [musical intro] Jenny Welcome back to Fund Your Future with the DRS. And in addition to managing money and saving for retirement and paying off loans, one of the largest sort of loan debts that Americans have is student loan debt. And so, we’re happy to have an episode today to talk about…
Episode 17 – How to save for a child’s future with WA529
Episode transcript: [musical intro] Jenny Well, welcome back to Fund Your Future with DRS. And of course, on the program, we talk about all sorts of savings goals for retirement. And a great one we’re talking about today is how to save for college. Seth, yeah… Seth Yeah, I’m super excited. We have Luke and…
Episode 16 – Options for those who only work a few years
Episode transcript: [musical intro] Jenny Well, welcome back to Fund Your Future with DRS. And today we’re looking at a particular topic where we know that a lot of employees who work here may not work here their entire career. They may leave public employment and go to work for the private sector or start…
Episode 15 – How to choose a financial advisor
Episode transcript: [musical intro] Jenny Welcome back to Fund Your Future with DRS. And today we have a great guest in our podcast studio to talk about how to choose a financial advisor. And before we get started, we just want to remind listeners that this podcast is provided as a public service, but it…
Episode 14 – Choosing between Plans 2 and 3
Episode transcript: [musical intro] Jenny Welcome back to Fund Your Future with DRS. And today we’re exploring a great topic that we get questions all the time about, which is: when you’re starting as a new state employee, how do you choose between Plan 2 and Plan 3? Seth I’m so excited that we’re having…
Episode 13 – How to claim missing money
Episode transcript: [musical intro] Jenny Welcome back to Fund Your Future with DRS. And we’ve got a special guest here with us today. For our podcast we like to dive into topics that can help you budget better and save money. And today we have a great guest here with us to talk a little…
Episode 12 – Should you automate your finances?
Episode transcript: [musical intro] Jenny Welcome to Fund Your Future with DRS. Today we’re talking about automating finances. And this is a great topic that applies to budgeting and just general personal finance. Good practices. Seth And kind of your life in general. What do you want to automate and what don’t you want to…
Episode 11 – How to save for retirement with DCP
Episode transcript: [musical intro] Jenny Welcome back to Fund Your Future with DRS and we are talking about the classic DCP, our Deferred Compensation Program. Seth Yeah, it’s probably one of the things that DRS is most known for. I think sometimes people think DCP and DRS are two different things because like decades ago…
Episode 10 – Frequently Asked Questions
Episode transcript: [musical intro] Jenny Welcome back to Fund Your Future with DRS. And today we’re taking a couple of questions that we’ve received from audience members, and we always welcome questions from audience and listeners. You can email us your questions at to drs.podcasts@drs.wa.gov. So our first question today comes from Beverly, who had asked:…
