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In today's Federal Newscast: The Department of Homeland Security will see a change in a key leadership position. The law that governs federal cybersecurity is getting a bipartisan overhaul. And it looks like federal firefighters finally landed a permanent pay raise.
Creating new locality pay areas while larger federal pay problems loom is “akin to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic,” the Senior Executives Association said. The organization is joining with others to call for a proposal from the Biden administration to fix pay compression.
A former Army financial advisor stands accused of defrauding Gold Star families, and an amendment to the NDAA would offer future protection against predatory financial counselors.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will implement a long-awaited pay raise for its IT and cybersecurity workforce later this month, to bring employees’ salaries closer to what they could earn in the private sector.
The Office of Personnel Management’s retirement claims backlog is the lowest it has been since December 2017.
On today's Federal Newscast: A union for feds sounds the alarm about telework, budgets and DEI issues. What does it mean that agencies improperly paid out more than $247 billion? And IRS looks to beta-test a free, online tax-filing platform.
The 2023 federal pay raise was the largest civilian employees have seen since 2002, and the largest military raise since 2003. But it's still not keeping up with private sector wage growth.
With the exception of the fixed income index F fund, all TSP funds posted positive returns in June.
The PACT Act, which became law in 2022, aims to help veterans who were exposed to toxins. Since June 3, it has sparked more than 625,000 new claims.
Four new locality pay areas are close to final, after the Office of Personnel Management proposed rules to implement approved recommendations from the President's Pay Agent and Federal Salary Council.
If the extra hours of annual leave put federal employees over their cap on carryover leave, they’ll have to use that time off — or lose it — by January 2024.
The House and Senate Armed Services Committees each finished their work on their respective versions of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act last week. Both bills include a 5.2% military pay raise, the largest since 2002.
The bill from the GOP-led House Appropriations Committee would effectively reverse forthcoming pay increases for TSA's non-screening workforce, such as air marshals and canine handlers.