Federal Report
Federal benefits expert Walton Francis, author of the Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees, joins host Mike Causey to answer your questions and emails about FEHBP open season. November 11, 2015
November 10, 2015-
Federal workers in the Washington-Baltimore area are due a locality pay raise next year, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it may be smaller than expected.
November 10, 2015 -
There are at least two schools of thought about repeated congressional efforts to privatize the IRS, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey. The government could save a lot of money if it could get rid of 90,000 IRS workers and let the private sector do it, for a fee, or squeeze it enough so it falls further behind in collections, and complete the self-fulfilling prophecy.
November 09, 2015 -
A two-year budget deal, no debt ceiling problem, so, no government shutdown, right? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says nothing in this town is that simple.
November 06, 2015 -
A pre-Christmas government shutdown could hurt Oklahoma, West Virginia and North Carolina more than Washington, D.C. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says that's where feds really live, work and spend.
November 05, 2015 -
Government zombies? The civil service version of the undead! Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says they exist and many of them are right in our backyard.
November 04, 2015 -
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey asks, do partisan D.C. parents really keep kids in line by threatening to send them to summer camps run by the NRA or the ACLU?
November 03, 2015 -
Since the late 1990s experts have been predicting a tidal wave of retirements from the federal service. Consider that pop star Justin Bieber was only 5 years old when the first tsunami alert was sounded.
November 02, 2015 -
Halloween is this weekend, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says for many high-level federal workers a much longer fright night is just about to begin.
October 30, 2015 -
White-collar feds in 13 new or expanded locality pay zones are going to get a slight pay adjustment in 2016. While that's good news for them, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it may be bad news for feds in other areas.
October 29, 2015 -
When it comes to running the government, what does Congress have in common with TV's Homer Simpson? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it rhymes with "D'oh!"
October 28, 2015 Katie Maddocks with the Federal Managers Association joins host Mike Causey to talk about the chances of a government shutdown, and legislation pending in Congress that would affect federal workers. October 28, 2015
October 27, 2015-
If you really like your teeth and you plan to retire from your government job some day, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has some advice for you and your choppers.
October 27, 2015 -
More than 70 million federal and Social Security retirees get COLAs from the government, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says this year's COLA fails the taste and smell test.
October 26, 2015 -
If the boss offered you a tax-deferred, 5 percent pay raise, would you take it? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says a lot of government workers say no.
October 23, 2015