"...The Defense Finance and Accounting Service's efforts to roll out a new Roth option for the Thrift Savings Plan are complicated by the balkanized, multiple pay and personnel systems its customer agencies use.
The Roth option — under which TSP participants invest after-tax dollars, instead of the standard before-tax contributions — will be available to many federal employees May 7. But military service members and federal civilians whose pay is handled by DFAS will have to wait. The Roth option is expected to be rolled out to Marine Corps service members in June, to DFAS-covered civilians in July, and to Army, Navy and Air Force service members in October..."
The Roth option — under which TSP participants invest after-tax dollars, instead of the standard before-tax contributions — will be available to many federal employees May 7. But military service members and federal civilians whose pay is handled by DFAS will have to wait. The Roth option is expected to be rolled out to Marine Corps service members in June, to DFAS-covered civilians in July, and to Army, Navy and Air Force service members in October..."