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On this edition of “Disaster Relief for America”, hosts Tim Karney and Tom Moran interview Ron Cassoni, the President of PointStream, Inc.
Congress returns after its August recess needing to complete 12 spending bills, deal with a looming fiscal deadline, and focus on cybersecurity and DoD issues.
The Office of Personnel Management made a small dent in its retirement claims backlog in August. The inventory dropped from 16,455 claims last month to 16,350.
Only the G Fund, which buys nonmarketable Treasury security, posted positive returns for August. The remaining Thrift Savings Plan funds posted negative numbers across-the-board.
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says when a son or daughter decides to bring a government worker home for dinner it can be heavy stuff for a parent to face.
Veterans Benefits Administration Under Secretary Allison Hickey told Federal Drive with Tom Temin that roughly 98,000 claims that are older than 125 days have been reduced to about 91,000. a sub-100,000 case milestone reached in late August.
A new "We the People" petition posted on WhiteHouse.gov calls for President Obama to give federal employees "a meaningful pay raise" this year. It was first posted on Aug. 31, a few days after President Barack Obama proposed an across-the-board, 1 percent pay raise for civilian federal employees and a 1.3 percent raise for members of the military in 2016. The petition needs 100,000 signatures for the White House to respond.
If your regular September game plan is to recover from your vacation and focus on back-to-school stuff, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says you picked the wrong month this year.
NARFE's John Hatton and Katie Maddocks from the Federal Managers Association, join host Mike Causey to talk about some of the issues that Congress will tackle when it returns from its summer recess. September 2, 2015
On this edition of “Disaster Relief for America”, hosts Tim Karney and Tom Moran interview Guy Beougher, the Executive Director of Operations in the DLA's Logistics Operations (J3).
Why will geographically challenged federal workers get a smaller pay raise in 2016? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it's because they live and work in the wrong place.
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has been checking the congressional calendar and he doesn't like what he sees.
President Barack Obama authorized a pay raise for civilian and uniformed federal employees effective Jan. 1, 2016.
Federal and Social Security retirees are due an inflation catchup in January, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it's likely to be a no-cal COLA again.