Benefits
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Your TSP account is looking a lot healthier lately, if you’re in the equity funds. The C, S, and I funds are all heading north as it looks like the economy may be recovering. Gary…
July 27, 2009 -
Is the economy rallying? The stock market was drifting earlier today after closing above 9,000 on Friday for the first time since January, leaving some economists to wonder if the worst is over. So .…
July 27, 2009 -
Phil Glover AFGE Council of Prison Locals Legislative Coordinator Terry Rosen AFGE Labor Relations Specialist Perry Hooks President, Hooks Book Events Jeff Goldman Executive Director of Government Programs, Kaiser Permanente
July 23, 2009 -
Big changes may be underway for the National Security Personnel System. The Defense Business Board stopped short of eliminating pay for performance, but it feels a lot of changes need to be made if the…
July 17, 2009 -
By Emily McKenna FederalNewsRadio The Office of Personnel Management wants the Chief Human Capital Officers to provide more organized attention to the 3R’s: recruitment, relocation, and retention incentives. OPM director John Berry outlined these requests…
July 16, 2009 -
The Senate has a lot left to do before the upcoming August recess — including curing the ‘FERS flu’. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey gives us a preview of what he’ll be talking about tomorrow during…
July 14, 2009 -
TSP participants seem to be moving their money back into stock funds, though investment in G fund is still strong.
July 14, 2009 -
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A House subcommittee is considering a bill to give health and other benefits to same-sex partners of federal workers. The measure sets up a conflict between two groups representing those with strongly held views on…
July 10, 2009 -
One of the top feds at the Office of Management and Budget is offering a more detailed picture of what\'s expected of federal workers and their agencies in the next several years.
July 06, 2009 -
By Dorothy Ramienski Internet Editor FederalNewsRadio The first quarter of the year is coming to a close, which means TSP participants should look for their quarterly statements. Tom Trabucco is the Director of External Affairs…
June 29, 2009 -
As you probably know by now, the tobacco bill was signed into law without a cure for the FERS flu. All is not lost, however. Yesterday the House passed a bill that included a possible…
June 25, 2009 -
Pay-for-performance within the federal government has been controversial for years. The Defense Department’s system — NSPS — has been the subject of endless debate since it began. Recently, DoD and OPM said they are taking…
June 23, 2009 -
Matthew Brooks President, AFGE Local 527 (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Rick Perlstein Author, \"Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America\" Gloria Totten President, Progressive Majority Dean Baker Co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
June 18, 2009 -
When will the just-approved Roth option be available to federal and postal investors in the Thrift Savings Plan? Will members of the uniformed military services (as in Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard)…
June 17, 2009