Federal Report
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The Department of Veterans Affairs will soon have a new fast-track system to spot, punish and fire employees for a variety of reasons. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey asks, is your agency or your job next?
June 19, 2017 -
With four months left to go in the cost-of-living adjustment countdown, the increase is looking like 1.51 percent in Social Security, civil service and retired military pay benefits, but that's not guaranteed and few people understand how the system works.
June 16, 2017 -
This week's heat wave kicks off the annual strip show in some offices. And if so, is it better or worse than in previous years, when some feds said some coworkers looked like they were auditioning for the Rocky Horror Picture Show?
June 15, 2017 -
If the office creep is the big boss, what can you do? Who can you tell, or, if you want to keep your job, should you grin and bear it? While there isn't a vaccine that will cure the problem, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says there are ways you can make things better.
June 14, 2017 -
Is your work environment toxic? What can you do to make things better? Find out when ELI CEO Stephen Paskoff joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn. June 17, 2017
June 13, 2017 -
If you get Social Security, or civil service or military retirement benefits, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says you may be on the road to the biggest inflation-catchup in years.
June 13, 2017 -
One of the best things about retiring from the government is that pensions are inflation-protected for life, but the Trump administration wants to eliminate cost-of-living adjustments for one group of retirees and trim future inflation catch-ups for others.
June 12, 2017 -
If you pick 100 people at random from your federal agency, odds are 34 of them could retire today, or six months ago. But they haven't. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey explains why.
June 09, 2017 -
If you're a government worker or retiree, odds are you are dreading the day when your grandson or granddaughter asks you about the good old days, when folks had pensions.
June 08, 2017 -
On this week's Your Turn radio show, Mike Causey talks with Greg Stanford of the Federal Managers Association about the political climate in D.C. and how it's affecting feds.
June 07, 2017 -
Normally a president's first budget has some good news and some bad news for federal workers and retirees, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says this time around the good news is pretty bad and the bad news is terrible.
June 07, 2017 -
Although World War II was truly global long before America got into it, the invasion of Normandy, or D-Day, stands out for most Americans. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey recalls the memories of guys who were there.
June 06, 2017 -
After years of people complaining that nothing was getting done because of gridlock between Congress and the White House, suddenly lots of federal workers and retirees are now worried that gridlock will go away.
June 05, 2017 -
Trimming or eliminating the cost-of-living adjustments for 2.6 million federal retirees would be a major financial blow to communities where they live, which is just about most places, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.
June 02, 2017 -
President Donald Trump’s new budget has many federal employees seeing red, as in Republican, and feeling blue, as in Democratic. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey explains why.
June 01, 2017