TSP News

**James48843** · 04-27-2007, 04:59 AM

TSP says major changes are just ahead in the password log-on process.

This showed up today on the TSP log in screen at http://tsp.gov account access portion:

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Beefing Up Account Security on the Web

In the coming weeks, the TSP is taking a major step to help keep your account transactions and information on this Web site more secure. We will require you to log into the Account Access section of this Web site with a longer, more complex Web password — a unique combination of letters and numbers that you can choose yourself or have the TSP's computer generate for you.

If you are already a TSP participant, the first time you log into Account Access after the new Web passwords go into effect, you will be prompted to either create your own Web password or request a computer-generated password. If you are just joining the TSP, the TSP will send you an initial password right after the TSP receives your first contribution. After you have used that Web password once to log into Account Access, you will be able to change it to a password of your choice.

Once you have your Web password, you will no longer be able to log into Account Access with your Personal Identification Number (PIN). But keep your TSP PIN! You will still need it to access your account by telephone via the ThriftLine. (You will not be able to use your Web password on the ThriftLine.)

Another important factor in keeping your account secure is YOU. It's up to you to keep your ThriftLine PIN and Web password confidential. Never give out your ThriftLine PIN or Web password to anyone, and never leave your PIN or password where anyone can see it. Also, make sure that your new password is only entered on a secure computer terminal.

More information about Web passwords will be available through Qs & As and TSP Features as the TSP gets closer to adding the new Web passwords.

**James48843** · 05-07-2007, 12:15 PM

The new TSP password requirements took affect this morning.

If you want to make an interfund transfer today, make sure you give yourself extra time. You will be required to select a new password today on the TSP site. It MUSt be exactly eight charichters, and MUST include at least one number.

It took me a couple minutes to make the changes, because I have both a civilian and a military account. But if you go in and want to make an interfund transfer today, it's going to ask you to get a new password set up before you can do anything else.

just an FYI.....

**Show-me** · 05-07-2007, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by James48843

The new TSP password requirements took affect this morning.

If you want to make an interfund transfer today, make sure you give yourself extra time. You will be required to select a new password today on the TSP site. It MUSt be exactly eight charichters, and MUST include at least one number.

It took me a couple minutes to make the changes, because I have both a civilian and a military account. But if you go in and want to make an interfund transfer today, it's going to ask you to get a new password set up before you can do anything else.

just an FYI.....

Thanks James!

**Scout333** · 05-08-2007, 01:02 PM

Anyone else out there in TSPTalk land noticing an incredibly slowww login to the TSP site since the change in passwords. Took me over 20 minutes to get in this morning. Is it just me?

**Aviator_Guy** · 05-08-2007, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by Scout333

Anyone else out there in TSPTalk land noticing an incredibly slowww login to the TSP site since the change in passwords. Took me over 20 minutes to get in this morning. Is it just me?

I made a change yesterday using their VMS and it was quick and easy, no problemo.

**FUTURESTRADER** · 05-08-2007, 02:01 PM

can't log in at all... tuesday, 10 am est

**weatherweenie** · 07-02-2007, 12:45 PM

The Thrift Savings Plan will be closed on Wednesday, July 4th, in observance of Independence Day. Transactions that would have been processed Wednesday night (July 4th) will be processed Thursday night (July 5th), at Thursday's closing share prices.

**James48843** · 07-30-2007, 05:23 AM

How bad is bad?

Well, to those of us who were in stocks for the last week…we got “whacked”, didn’t we?

Let’s take a look at the real pain here:

What did we actually loose for the month of July, at least so far?

This Month (&#37

G Fund: +0.42 %
F Fund: + 0.80 %
C Fund: -2.86 %
S Fund: -4.62 %
I Fund: -3.93 %

How does this compare to other months in the TSP?

It’s not as bad it you may think.

There have been other, bigger drops in TSP History.

You’d only have to go back to May of this year to find another month like this in the “C” fund. That month, the “C” dropped -2.87% for the month, and then bounced right back. In June, 2007, it was positive for the month, granted, only by 0.07%. Then July was another solid gain once again.

May 2007 was bad for the “S” fund too, but this month’s –4.62 already top’s May’s negative return of –4.36. You’d have to reach father back in time to equal this month’s losses in “S”, back to July of 2004, when the “S” fund fell -5.52% in one month.

And you’d have to reach back all the way to January of 2003 to find a worse monthly return on the “I” fund in a single month. Then, the “I” dropped -4.24% in a single month, and that one was followed by an additional –4.19 combined in February and March of 2003. The good news out of that one was a gain of 9.82 percent just one month later, in April.

Biggest one month declines on record?

How about September of 2002- when the “C” fund lost, in a single month, -10.87 percent?

Or August of 1998, when the “C” was down –14.47 percent in a single month.

That remains as the single biggest one month loss in TSP Stock Fund recorded history.

The “C” fund only became available to TSP account holders in January of 1988, after the October, 1987 stock market crash. Before January 1988, the only option for TSP holders was the "G" fund.

Look how far we've come!

Think postive.

**budnipper1** · 08-25-2007, 04:42 PM

TSP Web Sites Outage Notice
http://www.tsp.gov/general/website_outage.html

The TSP and FRTIB Web sites will be unavailable for approximately one hour,
beginning Sunday, August 26, 2007, around 3:00 a.m., eastern time,
due to system maintenance by our Internet Service Provider.

The TSP Web sites should be back online within one hour, but no later than 6:00 a.m., eastern time."

*Relevant to anybody planning on an IFT before work on Monday.
(There's always a chance that system maintenance could take longer than planned.)

**weatherweenie** · 08-28-2007, 01:03 PM

The Thrift Savings Plan is happy to offer a free e-mail subscription service. This service allows participants to receive notifications by e-mail when new information is available on the TSP Web site. With this service, you automatically receive an e-mail when there is new or updated information on the TSP Web site for items of interest to you — without having to visit the TSP Web site to check for changes.
This is a free service sponsored by the TSP and provided through GovDelivery. Your e-mail address will be used to notify you when updates are made; it will not be used for any other purpose by the TSP.

**qibovin** · 09-18-2007, 10:02 PM

Saw this from Military.com

Thrift Savings Plan Improves Security

The Thrift Savings Plan will begin using account numbers to improve individual account holder security effective in October 2007. TSP officials are mailing new account numbers to participants in September replacing the use of Social Security numbers. Account holders will use their account number and TSP Web password or ThriftLine personal identification number to log into the Account Access section of the TSP website or the ThriftLine. To prepare for this change, all account holders should make sure the TSP has their correct mailing address. Active-duty military members can update their address via the Defense Finance and Accounting Service myPay Web application.

http://www.tsp.gov/

https://mypay.dfas.mil/mypay.aspx

Learn more about the Thrift Savings Plan at Military.com.

http://www.military.com/benefits/mil...t-savings-plan