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The popularity of the self-plus-one option during the 2015 Open Season helped make it the busiest enrollment period on record. This year was so busy that the Office of Personnel Management has scheduled a limited enrollment period in February to make certain changes to plans regarding self-plus-one.
Didn't you know that there would be a catch to the SES pay raise? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has the details.
On this edition of “Disaster Relief for America”, hosts Tim Karney and Tom Moran interview Greg Carbin, the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at NOAA.
With the ceiling for Grade 15 being raised and members of the Senior Executive Service getting a pay boost, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says federal managers are finally getting some long overdue love.
After a year of being the target in a one-sided game of Russian roulette, federal workers can relax. At least for a couple of weeks, and probably longer than that.
President Barack Obama on Friday signed an Executive Order authorizing a 1.3 percent pay raise.
With the public obtaining news and information from a growing array of sources, federal agencies are adjusting their communications strategies to inform and engage the public about agency missions, programs, and the people who carry them out. December 18, 2015.
Leaders within the federal manager community offered a mixed bag of reactions to President Obama's new executive order on Service Executive Service reform. Higher performance bonuses largely went over well, but others had more questions over the timeline and implementation of the initiatives.
The 2016 spending bill holds more presents than lumps of coal for federal employees. The omnibus appropriations bill is the first one in some time that didn’t require federal employees to hold their collective breaths for possible pay and benefits changes. Federal News Radio’s executive editor Jason Miller joins Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin me with details about why federal employees should be a little more optimistic for 2016 and beyond. Read Jason's related story.
The omnibus spending bill includes money for the FBI’s new headquarters, 10 years of credit monitoring services for OPM breach victims and much more for federal employees.
February 2016 will be selfie month for thousands of federal workers. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says this is not a "smile and say cheese" event photo op.
The Defense Department said the housing allowance rates for 2016 will increase by average of $54 a month, but service members head into a second year of cost-sharing increases.
If there is a government shutdown — when people are sent home and ordered not to work — can a federal employee still go on vacation?
David Snell, director of retirement benefits at NARFE, joins host Mike Causey to discuss the new self-plus-one health care option for federal employees, and the backlog in processing retirement applications. December 16, 2015