Social Security Administration 2016
Reggie Wells, Chief Human Capital Officer of the Social Security Administration, discussed the diversity of the agency’s workforce and how managers cultivated it.
Read moreThe Social Security Administration is updating its IT strategy so it can start taking advantage of the massive amounts of data it collects, and move toward data-driven decision-making.
The Social Security Administration is pairing up with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to ensure that social security benefit recipients over the age of 90 are, in fact, still alive.
The SSA is updating their online services with new programs and better security, but still faces budgetary and workforce attrition challenges.
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Trump revives executive order aiming to strip some federal employees of civil service protections
The executive order reviving Schedule F quickly prompted the National Treasury Employees Union to file a lawsuit against Trump officials.
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Hiring reform, SES accountability to get more scrutiny
Agencies to receive new plans to improve the hiring process and performance plans for SESers in the next 120 days under Trump administration’s new policies.
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Trump administration asks agencies for lists of newly hired federal employees
A new Office of Personnel Management memo also tells agencies to determine whether or not the new federal hires should be retained at the agency.
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How much of Biden’s regulatory agenda will survive under Trump?
Joe Biden’s administration unleashed a small storm of regulations in the last months of his presidency, which could be evaporated by the Trump administration.
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Trump administration forces out leaders at Coast Guard, TSA
The Trump administration dismissed the leaders of the Coast Guard and the TSA, respectively. Meanwhile, Trump’s nominee to lead DHS is advancing in the Senate.
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Trump’s day 1 executive actions include federal hiring freeze, return-to-office directive
President Trump called for a hiring freeze and a return to office for federal employees, but implementing telework changes will face multiple roadblocks.
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Trump installs DOGE within White House, scrapping plan for an outsider task force
AFGE National President Everett Kelley said he asked to join the government efficiency commission “for the voices of the thousands of federal workers.”
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GSA’s new leadership mostly comes from tech, finance sectors
The White House hired a new deputy administrator and commissioners of FAS and PBS to lead the General Services Administration.