Pay & Benefits

  • Participants in the Thrift Savings Plan might not like to hear their accounts don\'t have all the recommended cybersecurity protections they need. But the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board is taking its insider threat security development so seriously, it\'s putting its own cybersecurity testers through the ringer.

    April 23, 2015
  • Feds beware. Everything old -- whether it\'s good or bad -- can be new again, warns Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.

    April 23, 2015
  • Steve Bauer, executive director of the Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund, joins host Mike Causey to give us an update on the two hundred children who were given college scholarships after losing at least one parent in the Oklahoma City bombing. April 22, 2015

    April 22, 2015
  • Twenty years ago this month, domestic terrorists set off a powerful car bomb outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey talks to one of the people who helped the families and victims of the 1995 tragedy.

    April 22, 2015
  • The chief accountant for the Labor Department\'s Employee Benefits Security Administration says the Thrift Savings Plan board lags in doing security tests on the TSP\'s network. Kim Weaver is Director of External Affairs at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. On In Depth with Francis Rose, she said the Board isn\'t avoiding doing the tests, and there are a couple of kinds of tests the Board will run.

    April 21, 2015
  • Following up on the success of its first continuing education program, the Office of Personnel Management on Monday announced its partnership with Champlain College, a 137-year-old private college based in Burlington, Vermont. Federal workers and their spouses will be able to enroll in degree or certificate programs before the start of the summer 2015 semester. The admission deadline is June 5.

    April 21, 2015
  • If there were an endangered species list for occupations, more than 300,000 federal workers would be on it. Senior correspondent Mike Causey has tracked them down.

    April 21, 2015
  • Five military associations are calling on the House Armed Services Committee members to take a closer look at several of the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission\'s recommendations.

    April 20, 2015
  • If you\'re a federal employee and you\'re contemplating a very public, very questionable act, for your own good, don\'t do it, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.

    April 20, 2015
  • In the wake of the 1995 Oklahoma City terrorist bombing, the Federal Employee Education & Assistance Fund helped federal families recover, including sending 200 children to college.

    April 17, 2015
  • Many retirees with Thrift Savings Plan accounts wonder why they can\'t continue to invest in it. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has the answer.

    April 17, 2015
  • Congress has been making a lot of noise about targeting tax deadbeats in the federal workforce. But what about those tax delinquents in their own ranks or White House staffers? asks Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.

    April 16, 2015
  • Joan Melanson, director of program promotion for Long Term Care Partners, joins host Mike Causey to discuss why feds should enroll in the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program. April 15, 2015

    April 15, 2015
  • Death and taxes are inevitable and not particularly fun to contemplate. But have you given any thought to long-term care? asks Senior Correspondent Mike Causey. That can be scary too.

    April 15, 2015