Benefits

FEHB, OPM, GAO costs, Stethoscope and money on wooden table representing health care, FEHB plans.

In 2025, FEHB enrollees will see largest health premium increase in over a decade

Beginning in January, federal employees and annuitants in FEHB will pay an average of 13.5% more toward their health care premiums, according to OPM data.

Open Season

FEHB enrollees will see more choices for comprehensive IVF coverage in 2025

Benefits

TSP participant satisfaction rebounds slightly in 2024 survey

TSP

Bill to repeal WEP, GPO reaches threshold to force a House floor vote

Congress

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Exclusive

Federal benefits are major draw to service for younger employees

Benefits

After a long wait, federal benefits for more 9/11 first responders

Benefits

Lawmakers file discharge petition, aiming to force floor vote on WEP, GPO bill

Congress

Tom Temin and Ken Dieffenbach, Executive Director of Pandemic Response Accountability Committee

How the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation plugged a hole in a relief program

Benefits

Big or small business, ‘this’ type of federal contractor does the best job

Contracting

Social Security, SSA, worker, telework, episodic telework

Social Security’s case backlogs are sliding the wrong way

Retirement

Feds with Benefits: An introduction, and advice about Medicare Part B

Feds with Benefits

Wow! Federal retirement, and protecting it, mean hard work!

From WEP/GPO repeal to getting a rational long term care insurance program, the work, pay, benefit and federal retirement issues never end.

Tom Temin Commentary

The government’s flex spending account for employees seems to be getting safer from fraudsters

In today’s Federal Newscast, new instances of fraud in the government’s Flexible Spending Account program, FSAFEDS, are dwindling.

Federal Newscast

6 federal workforce bills to watch this fall

Congress

Hiring reform, telework, locality pay, official time and paid leave are a just a handful of the federal workforce priorities currently pending in Congress.