Benefits

  • 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
  • Despite gavel-to-gavel coverage of Congress and the media microscope on government operations, much of what happens here in Washington is under the radar. Hearings, at which news is sometimes made, are held. It gives the…

    June 16, 2009
  • Permit me to start today’s column with my granddaughter’s favorite joke. It goes like this: “Horse walks into a bar. The bartender says ‘why the long face?'” Get it? Long face! Horse. Get it? Now,…

    June 15, 2009
  • If you love your family, fill out your TSP beneficiary forms (pdf). Arthur Stein joins us for our weekly talk with financial experts to discusses common and costly mistakes feds make with their TSP beneficary…

    June 12, 2009
  • FedExperience launched last fall. It is a pilot project with the Department of Treasury, which is designed to help the federal government develop models to bring experienced talent into public service. Tim McManus is the…

    June 05, 2009
  • By Max Cacas FederalNewsRadio The Office of Personnel Management is asking agency Chief Human Capital Officers, and their bosses, to take a second look at Recruitment, Relocation and Retention Incentive programs. In a memo from…

    June 01, 2009
  • As FederalNewsRadio has been telling you, changes might be coming to your Thrift Savings Plan. As always, Tom Trabucco of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board joins us during our weekly chat with everything you…

    June 01, 2009