Pay & Benefits
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The Department of Veterans Affairs, faced with thousands of job vacancies and a high rate of turnover among its health care workforce, is calling on Congress to set higher pay caps for more occupations, and permanently ease onboarding requirements.
March 18, 2022 -
Social Security is an agency in some crisis as labor relations are strained with ongoing uncertainty over their contracts.
March 15, 2022 -
The WEP/Offset battle is up and running again, with renewed vigor. Since it's important to so many, Mike Causey will be taking a look at both sides of the argument.
March 10, 2022 -
One long-time fed said I had made unfair (and unjustified) editorial comments about the impact and the need for the WEP and GPO.
March 08, 2022 -
TSP participation rates for the Federal Employees Retirement System and active duty uniformed services were at all-time highs in January: 94.9% and 81.3%, respectively.
February 25, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, five unions say VA should immediately develop a joint COVID-19 training task force to design education courses for employees.
February 22, 2022 -
Congress may be on the way to changing two laws that offset or eliminate benefits to public employees and their survivors.
February 17, 2022 -
VA is rolling out a 10-point human infrastructure strategy, aimed at helping the agency recruit and retain in-demand workers at a time when the agency is facing record turnover among health care employees.
February 09, 2022 -
The Postal Service’s best shot at a long-term legislative reform in recent years is finally moving ahead in Congress next week.
February 04, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, lawmakers are trying to achieve cost parity under TRICARE to cover birth control.
January 24, 2022 -
Government attorneys appealed a Texas judge's finding that the Navy's strict religious accommodation process violates the religious freedoms of 35 sailors who refused the vaccine.
January 24, 2022 -
Are you concerned about your estate after you pass? Tom O’Rourke, a Washington area attorney who specializes in tax and estate law, shares his guide on how to avoid the most common estate planning errors.
January 12, 2022 -
When federal employees leave government, one in three investors in the Thrift Savings Plan move their money out of Uncle Sam’s 401k plan for a variety of reasons.
December 28, 2021 -
The good news is that federal, postal, military and Social Security retirees in January will be getting the largest cost of living adjustment they’ve had in years. That is also the bad news!
December 23, 2021 -
The program will keep a continual eye on service member families and bring together best practices.
December 22, 2021