Benefits
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Healthcare experts Ceci Connolly and Andrea Walsh lay out five ways OPM can improve its Health Plan Comparison Tool.
June 30, 2021 -
House Democrats argue the pandemic has shown the need for paid family and medical leave, but Republicans say the benefits federal employees have are already too generous.
June 24, 2021 -
When it comes to being a savvy, successful investor, your typical federal bureaucrat may leave other professions in the dust.
June 23, 2021 -
The House of Representatives will likely go along with the president's 2.7% federal pay raise for civilian employees next year, a House Democrat said Tuesday. The House Appropriations Committee will release the text for a key 2022 bill later this week.
June 22, 2021 -
The Pentagon has a new strategy to deliver cloud services to OCONUS users, but a single, JEDI-like enterprise cloud service is conspicuously absent from discussion in the document.
June 21, 2021 -
With the 2022 retire cost of living adjustment heading for record territory, many working feds wonder if an inflation-driven boost for retirees will influence their pay raise.
June 17, 2021 -
Working slightly longer than you planned can have a big time payoff. And it’s particularly true for federal workers.
June 16, 2021 -
One of your best resources for finding the best path to becoming a Thrift Savings Plan millionaire is often a fellow federal employee.
June 15, 2021 -
The latest “go-live” for MHS Genesis installations nearly doubled the system’s footprint in a single day. It stands at 42,000 active users.
June 11, 2021 -
The American Rescue Plan law directed $17 billion in new money towards veterans.
June 10, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a new White House memorandum establishes fighting corruption as a core national security interest for the Biden administration.
June 04, 2021 -
Now that a serious effort at postal reform seems to be making traction, business groups are lining up to support it — but with some caveats. Tom Temin got one view from the executive director of the Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service, Art Sackler.
June 02, 2021 -
The Postal Service sent its first reduction in force notices to non-union management employees, while the Senate confirmed Biden's third USPS board pick.
May 28, 2021 -
Federal, military and Social Security retirees are in line for a cost of living adjustment that could be their biggest in more than a decade.
May 27, 2021 -
You probably have an estate whether you have given it much thought. Take some time to make a plan. It could save you and your family lots of money and heartache.
May 26, 2021