Federal Report
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Although still a couple of days short of the record set in 1995-96 for the longest shutdown, the ongoing Great Wall of Mexico government shutdown is getting a lot more attention than its predecessors.
January 07, 2019 -
Most of the millions of federal contractors won’t get paid for time lost to the shutdown, but why should you sweat it? They're the ones who decided to work on federal projects.
January 07, 2019 -
Are, as so many politicians believe, all, many or most federal workers Democrats? Maybe they are now, but in general, probably not.
January 04, 2019 -
Non-federal members of the public can be hurt by a shutdown. In the meantime, elected officials continue to get paid on time. Mike Causey is back from vacation and wants to hear from people hit by the partial government shutdown.
January 03, 2019 -
To kick off the new year, Abraham Grungold in the U.S. Postal Service's Office of the Inspector General, also a financial coach, developed this must-have calendar for feds and retirees.
January 02, 2019 -
Look back at the most popular columns from senior correspondent Mike Causey this year. Readers were most interested in updates on the Thrift Savings Plan and a potential pay raise for federal workers in 2019.
January 01, 2019 -
This year was a crazy one for members of the federal family, with many legislative threats to retirement plans as well as efforts to make it much easier to fire civil servants.
January 01, 2019 -
Many people who spent their career with Uncle Sam are glad they did. But when it’s over, many people are glad, too. Take today’s holiday guest columnist, Tony Korlik, for example.
December 31, 2018 -
If you are like most federal workers and retirees the health insurance open season that ended earlier this month was just a big yawn. But there will another individual open season next year if you have a qualifying life event.
December 27, 2018 -
Today’s holiday guest column is from a long-time fed who takes Christmas very seriously. She’s had a year of ups and downs, and shared her thoughts on life as a fed.
December 26, 2018 -
The day after Christmas, guest columnist Nancy Crosby takes a proactive approach to surviving the post-holiday winter blues. Be happy, exercise and when it all becomes too much, take a nap.
December 25, 2018 -
So did Santa bring you what you wanted? If you work for the federal government, the shirt answer is yes and no. It's been a wild ride but this year showed just how essential federal employees are.
December 25, 2018 -
For the past few months many federal workers hoped against hope that they would get a bonus holiday today from the White House. And they got it, sort of.
December 24, 2018 -
This time last week many long-suffering civil servants were searching for their starving-college-days ramen noodle cookbooks to survive paydays delayed.
December 21, 2018 -
Be honest, how many of you bet a colleague, or yourself, that the president wasn’t going to give feds a bonus holiday Christmas Eve?
December 20, 2018