Pay & Benefits

  • Jason Wilder President, AFGE U.S. Marshals Service Local 2272 Michael Castelle National Fair Practices Coordinator, AFGE Council of Prison Locals Kathleen Stoll Families USA Deputy Executive Director Kim Bailey Families USA Senior Health Policy Analyst

    March 16, 2011
  • The Partnership for Public Service\'s Max Stier argues for a restructuring of the General Schedule, a key issue in the debate over federal employee pay.

    March 16, 2011
  • Members of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel are studying the Defense Department\'s proposal to increase fees for working-age retirees who use the military\'s TRICARE health insurance benefit. The panel heard, in separate hearings, from DoD officials defending the increase, and retiree groups who fear it is a \"camel\'s nose under the tent.\"

    March 16, 2011
  • The Federal Employees Education and Assistance fund survives on the kindness of federal employees to help federal employees survive disasters from furloughs to floods. We talk with Executive Director Steve Bauer. We also get an update on the latest furlough developments from Federal Times editor, Steve Watkins.

    March 16, 2011
  • The value of the work done by federal employees is being overlooked in the pay debate. At least according to the new vice-president of the Federal Managers Association, George Smith.

    March 16, 2011
  • DoD officials were on Capitol Hill Tuesday defending their proposed increases to TRICARE premiums.

    March 16, 2011
  • The American Federation of Government Employees said Tuesday it will no longer participate in discussions related to the future status of DoD employees who had been part of the soon-to-be-terminated National Security Personnel System. The labor organization said \"union-busting\" activities by the Air Force were the reason for its decision.

    March 16, 2011
  • In the event of an emergency like a government-wide shutdown you want to have six months cash to cover your bills while Congress gets its act together. Where, you ask, do you find that financial cushion? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey tells you about how some members of Congress did it in the 1990s.

    March 16, 2011
  • Federal News Radio Senior Correspondent Mike Causey brings an update of federal managers\' mood from the Federal Managers Association conference in Arlington, Va.

    March 15, 2011
  • Reducing pay and benefits of federal civilian employees, military and retirees could save the government $10 billion over five years and $50 billion over 10 years, according to a March report by the Congressional Budget Office.

    March 15, 2011
  • Something has to give, according to the Partnership for Public Service\'s John Palguta. In terms of the budget, he says \"what we have right now isn\'t working.\"

    March 15, 2011
  • Are politicians who say federal workers are underworked, overpaid and out of touch onto something or do they have another agenda? And, asks Senior Correspondent Mike Causey, right, or wrong, is it possible that their bureaucrat-bashing will create the kind of government they claim they are trying to avoid.

    March 15, 2011
  • Does the battle over the debt limit have an impact on the TSP super-safe G fund?

    March 14, 2011
  • U.S. troops could be required to report to work without pay if a budget clash in Congress results in a government-wide shutdown, according to draft planning guidance circulating in the Pentagon.

    March 14, 2011