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Among those stuck at home are people who were about to retire or had already filed their retirement papers. Federal retirement expert Tammy Flanagan had some answers on the potential delay for benefits.
Most of the millions of federal contractors won’t get paid for time lost to the shutdown, but why should you sweat it? They're the ones who decided to work on federal projects.
The Office of Personnel Management has told agencies not to give political appointees a $8,000-to-10,000 pay raise originally set to go into effect Saturday. But a prior executive order provided the raise unless Congress acts, which it has not.
Contractors join federal employees and their families as the so-called collateral damage in the latest political game of chicken.
In today's Federal Newscast, an alliance of 30 federal employee organizations are urging the president to end the partial government shutdown.
The EPA exempted more than 98 percent of its workforce for a partial government shutdown. But due to a funding lapse the agency closed most of its operations in late December.
Members in the House and Senate have reintroduced legislation that would guarantee back pay for excepted and furloughed federal employees during this and any government shutdown. The Senate version clarifies employees would receive pay as soon as agencies reopen, regardless of payroll schedules.
It doesn't look promising today, but maybe divided government will somehow get the shutdown out of irons.
In today's Federal Newscast, incoming House leadership unveiled its new rules package without the rule which lets Congress reduce the number of employees an agency can have.
Non-federal members of the public can be hurt by a shutdown. In the meantime, elected officials continue to get paid on time. Mike Causey is back from vacation and wants to hear from people hit by the partial government shutdown.
The Office of Personnel Management has updated information for furloughed federal employees who want to file for unemployment benefits during this partial government shutdown.
The partial government shutdown is costing federal civilian contractors millions of dollars per day. Are they paying their employees?
To kick off the new year, Abraham Grungold in the U.S. Postal Service's Office of the Inspector General, also a financial coach, developed this must-have calendar for feds and retirees.
A package of bills from House Democrats would reopen government, provide full-year funding for most federal agencies and give civilian employees a pay raise in 2019.