Federal Report
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Career managers can turn inspectors general into allies, not enemies.
May 29, 2020 -
Many of you are the reason for the special passes which often allow you, on behalf of us, to go into harms’ way every day, as part of the job.
May 28, 2020 -
Given the impact of the pandemic on the economy, and on prices, it is unlikely that retirees who get cost of living adjustments most years will be getting a COLA in January 2021.
May 27, 2020 -
Before the coronavirus, teleworking in the federal government, after more than a decade of steady growth, hit a major speed bump -- the Trump administration!
May 26, 2020 -
It's not a lack of ideas that's holding up federal hiring reform
May 22, 2020 -
The Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) celebrated a big birthday last Friday, but there are few federal participants left in the government's once signature pension plan.
May 22, 2020 -
What Stein can diagnose are sick and healthy financial trends, pointing out that for 11 years, leading up to the virus-driven crash, the stock market was in bull-market territory longer than any time in the country’s history.
May 21, 2020 -
Anthony Corridore spent 30-plus years at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services where he was an IT project manager and a closet poet.
May 21, 2020 -
According to last week’s Wall Street Journal, the top-stock buyer for the government of a very oil-rich Middle Eastern nation has been scooping up multiple shares of Marriott and Boeing (Disney World and the airliner)…
May 20, 2020 -
They say that the coronavirus is a threat to all of us regardless of who we are and where we live - we are all in the same boat. But are we really?
May 19, 2020 -
What a week for the Thrift Savings Plan. The TSP offered more details on how its participants can take loans and withdrawals during the coronavirus pandemic, and the international fund faces a different fate.
May 18, 2020 -
Bureau of Prisons and corrections officers don't quite see eye-to-eye.
May 15, 2020 -
Although looking back on the first couple of months of 2020 might seem like the Good Old Days, benefits expert Tammy Flanagan said, “It was already destined to be pretty rocky” being an election year and all. But, then, of course, came the coronavirus pandemic.
May 14, 2020 -
For obvious reasons, nobody has a handle on where cost of living adjustments or health care costs/insurance premiums will end up.
May 14, 2020 -
Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset cost millions of federal and public employees even more millions in dollars of benefits.
May 13, 2020