Benefits

• Watching Your Thrift Savings Plan Money

  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…

  All News

  July 27, 2009
• Talking about your TSP

  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 .…

  Benefits

  July 27, 2009
• Inside Government – July 24th, 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

  Benefits

  July 23, 2009
• AFGE speaks out against NSPS

  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…

  Defense

  July 17, 2009
• OPM wants more data on use of recruitment, retention and relocation incentives.

  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…

  Benefits

  July 16, 2009
• Will the Senate cure the ‘FERS flu’?

  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…

  Benefits

  July 14, 2009
• Investor confidence in TSP stock funds increases

  TSP participants seem to be moving their money back into stock funds, though investment in G fund is still strong.

  Benefits

  July 14, 2009
• Domestic partner benefits: management vs. morals

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  Benefits

  July 13, 2009
• Benefits for same-sex partners of federal workers?

  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…

  Congress

  July 10, 2009
• OMB’s Liebman: Getting beyond PART

  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.

  Management

  July 06, 2009
• TSP accounts on track to hit four positive months in a row

  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…

  Benefits

  June 29, 2009
• A possible cure for the FERS flu?

  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…

  Benefits

  June 25, 2009
• Causey on Pay-for-Performance

  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…

  Defense

  June 23, 2009
• Inside Government – June 19th, 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

  Benefits

  June 18, 2009