Pay & Benefits

  • If the federal thrift savings plan is so great why do so many people hate it. And how come insiders are always looking for ways to get a piece of the TSP action, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wonders, or an account of their own?

    August 31, 2011
  • A new Office of Personnel Management report showed that agency use of recruitment, relocation and retention incentives rose 22 percent in 2009, the Obama administration\'s first year. That\'s a slower rate of growth than in previous years. But it indicates that the government still relies on one-time payments to lure or keep nurses, engineers and others with needed skills.

    August 30, 2011
  • Tom Trabucco, director of external affairs at FRTIB, explains how the changing of the guard means for your TSP.

    August 30, 2011
  • FMA President Patricia Niehaus lays out some of the potentially harmful proposals for feds that lawmakers are considering to cut the deficit.

    August 30, 2011
  • The government is about to launch a new diversity initiative. So what does that mean? Apparently, it depends on who you ask, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

    August 30, 2011
  • The Labor Department warns it won\'t be able to make workers\' comp payments to federal employees if the Postal Service fails to make a $1.2 billion payment by October.

    August 29, 2011
  • Unionized employees are entitled to be paid while in the facility during low-volume mail times, equipment breakdowns or other unexpected events.

    August 29, 2011
  • Americans have faced lots of natural disasters this year but now Washington and other major federal centers are suffering the impact of an annual mass-migration that brings both joy and despair. Mike Causey reports, literally, from the eye of the storm.

    August 29, 2011
  • Merit Systems Protection Board Executive Director Steve Lenkart and John Crum, director of MSPB\'s Office of Policy and Evaluation, join host Debra Roth to talk about the challenges facing the agency. August 26, 2011

    August 26, 2011
  • Tammy Flanagan, Senior Benefits Director at National Institute of Transition Planning, is here to help you figure out if FEGLI is your best choice.

    August 26, 2011
  • The American Federation of Government Employees, a union representing 625,000 federal employees, is pushing for a stop to the proposed cuts to federal pay, benefits and workforces.

    August 26, 2011
  • Federal employees with the Agriculture Department developed the variety of turkey that many of us choose for our Thanksgiving feast, but Congress is working on a new model that may reverse things and carve up civil servants, postal workers and retirees at the same time, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

    August 26, 2011
  • How do you follow an act like an earthquake? Well, wherever you are, the government did very well and everything seems to be okay, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

    August 25, 2011
  • Host Mike Causey will talk about TSP investments with CBS MarketWatch columnist Alan Roth. He will also discuss the status of federal buyouts with Federal Times editor Steve Losey, and senior reporter Sean Reilly. August 2, 2011

    August 24, 2011