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Congress may yet upend an enduring wrinkle in Social Security benefits, a disparity long resented by certain federal employees and public servants at the state and local levels.
If you have been investing in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) for its entire 35 years, you have likely got a pretty good nest egg.
In today's Federal Newscast: A House bill is gaining steam to restore full Social Security benefits to certain feds. The focus intensifies on an estimated $65 billion in bogus unemployment insurance payments during the pandemic. And one congressman is probing a no-bid contract at DHS.
With an increasing workload under the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, EPA employees and union leaders call on Congress and agency officials to make significant workforce changes.
A major Postal Service reform bill signed into law last year is moving postal employees and retirees into a different health insurance marketplace from the rest of the federal workforce.
The Office of Personnel Management’s backlog in federal retirement claims climbed in the new year as the monthly average processing times increased to 93 days from 85.
A new governmentwide pay model for federal IT and cybersecurity employees is coming into focus.
Federal employees, union officials and lawmakers heightened calls for an 8.7% federal pay raise in 2024 at a rally in front of the Capitol building.
The pandemic relief fraud numbers keep piling up. A billion here, a billion there. Was anybody watching?
OPM said the holdup on issuing final regulations is due to a conflict with rest and recuperation leave, but proponents of the legislation voiced frustrations with the years-long delay.
House lawmakers have reintroduced the Equal COLA Act, to equalize cost-of-living adjustments for federal retirees, and the Fair COLA for Seniors Act, to change how the annual adjustments are calculated.
The Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act would give feds 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, essentially replacing the 12 weeks of unpaid leave offered through the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
President Joe Biden directed agency leaders to expand federal employees’ access to leave options, including for family and medical emergencies, as well as in instances of domestic violence.
Withdrawals, loan repayments, navigating the web site — TSP accounts management is still a challenge