Benefits
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The Social Security Fairness Act now has more than 290 co-sponsors, more than enough to force a House floor vote.
July 29, 2022 -
The Senate will continue debating the Chips Bill this week. Find out more about that and other important happenings on Capitol Hill, Tom Temin talked with Bloomberg Government deputy news director Loren Duggan.
July 25, 2022 -
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent letters to veteran records retrieval companies including DD214 Direct, Aardvark Research Group and Angels Research.
July 15, 2022 -
The House Rules Committee on Tuesday advanced a revised version of the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (Honoring Our PACT) Act that the Senate passed month, but addresses technical drafting errors.
July 13, 2022 -
For an update, VA's Executive Director of Loan Guaranty John Bell III spoke to the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
July 05, 2022 -
Current policy lets feds use sick leave to travel for medical care, but some employer groups want the White House to go further.
June 30, 2022 -
There may come a time in your family's life when having the should-I-have-a-trust conversation is critical. Whether you did it, or especially if you didn’t do it but should have!
June 21, 2022 -
The Honoring Our PACT Act would expand disability compensation and health care benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances during their military service.
June 15, 2022 -
The key ingredient in any successful business is a talented and productive workforce. The talent a company acquires and retains is vital to the company’s success. Employees are rethinking their professional values and are faced with uncertainties regarding their personal health, wellbeing and job stability.
June 15, 2022 -
Automation can help VA process survivors claims when a veteran passes away, which currently takes more than two months on average.
June 14, 2022 -
When Congress created the Federal Employee Retirement System in the ‘80s, one of the most notable changes was that future retirees would get smaller cost of living adjustments than participants in the old Civil Service Retirement System. CSRS and Social Security beneficiaries get COLAs that match inflation; FERS retirees get a smaller adjustment. That hasn’t been a big deal over the past decade of low inflation, but obviously circumstances have changed.
June 10, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a bill passes the House giving federal workers who get injured on the job better access to workers' compensation.
June 10, 2022 -
Food insecurity affected one in five military families as of 2021 — up from one in eight in 2019 — according to the Military Family Advisory Network.
June 08, 2022 -
The IRS outlined “pass-through” provisions of its 2022 National Agreement with the National Treasury Employees Union, which apply to agency managers and non-bargaining unit employees.
June 08, 2022 -
Congress — at least the House side of it — is closer than ever to giving the green light to repeal or reform WEP and GPO, the so-called “Evil Twins” that eat into, or eliminate, the Social Security benefits of hundreds of thousands of former government employees or their widows.
June 02, 2022