Pay & Benefits
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With Democrats back in control of the House of Representatives, unions and groups representing workers, retirees, managers and executives are increasingly confident they can deliver a substantial raise to white collar feds next year.
March 29, 2019 -
Some politicians have been after the Federal Employees Retirement System since it replaced the more generous Civil Service Retirement System program during the Reagan administration.
March 27, 2019 -
The White House's task force on USPS recommends reamortizing payments that would, in the long-term, save the Postal Service about $20 billion. That would also increase annual retirement contributions.
March 26, 2019 -
Retirement planning is essential for just about everyone but if you work for Uncle Sam, a few things can cost you once you’ve switched from larger biweekly paychecks to a smaller monthly annuity deposit.
March 25, 2019 -
Years after the buyout surge of the 1990s some still-working feds are hanging on until the next round of buyouts. But that could take a while.
March 22, 2019 -
The Trump administration is also planning to study the full scope of federal employees' pay, benefits other opportunities for recognition, in effort to prove to Congress that the workforce would benefit from more flexible performance-based awards over across-the-board pay raises.
March 21, 2019 -
The Trump administration’s 2020 budget proposal includes significant changes in federal employee retirement programs, most of which are cuts but with one exception.
March 21, 2019 -
The federal employment question forms a knot that remains difficult to untie.
March 21, 2019 -
Retirement expert John Grobe, himself a former fed, said the length and uncertainty of the recent shutdown has a lot more people thinking about retirement, or just leaving government for greener pastures.
March 21, 2019 -
Who would apply for a job at a place where you might be forced to work without pay for a month, or that is threatened with bankruptcy every year? American University's Bob Tobias says that is how the federal government looks right now.
March 20, 2019 -
John Grobe, president of Federal Career Experts, specializes in prepping feds for retirement and is Mike Causey's guest on today's episode of Your Turn.
March 20, 2019 -
Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic and a nationally syndicated financial columnist, said that when it comes to investing, his motto is "Dare to be dull," as in boring.
March 19, 2019 -
Sen. James Lankford says whatever retirement changes occur should only apply to new hires. Hear this story and more in today's Federal Newscast.
March 15, 2019 -
Lawmakers and Trump administration officials remain divided over whether rolling back postal unions’ right to collectively bargain over compensation, as recommended by the White House’s Postal Task Force, would put the agency on firmer financial footing.
March 14, 2019 -
The annual winter presentation of the president's budget is akin to other ancient rituals which have since lost their original purpose.
March 14, 2019