Pay & Benefits

• WEB EXTRA: Buy-and-Hold STILL Works Better

  If you’re out of the stock market – especially the C and F funds – get back in, and STAY in. Another in a long series of reports that finds buy-and-hold investing works better than…

  All News

  April 01, 2009
• Changes could come for TSP beneficiaries

  The TSP\'s Employee Thrift Advisory Council has proposed allowing surviving spouses of TSP participants to inherit accounts.

  Benefits

  March 30, 2009
• Congressman proposes stimulating military pay

  When it comes to active duty military personnel, one congressman says if we can\'t pay them more, let\'s tax them less.

  Pay & Benefits

  March 30, 2009
• Telework Update

  What Congress is doing to keep feds off the roads and on the cyberhighways.

  Workforce

  March 30, 2009
• Taxes: What to do if you can’t pay

  You may be down, but you\'re not out of options

  Pay & Benefits

  March 27, 2009
• OPM nominee has friends in high places

  A cool afternoon in the hotseat for the next man tapped to run the Office of Personnel Management.

  Workforce

  March 27, 2009
• The Fiscal Future of the USPS

  The U.S. Postal Service is on the ropes, fiscally, and today, the Postmaster General came to Congress looking for a hand, not a handout. FederalNewsRadio’s Max Cacas joins us more.

  Pay & Benefits

  March 25, 2009
• Some good news for the TSP

  By Amy Morris Executive Editor, FederalNewsRadio Turns out, amid the troubling economic news, a glimmer of sunshine for members of the federal Thrift Savings Plan, the retirement plan for federal employees. Q: What’s the good…

  Benefits

  March 24, 2009
• Federal Benefit Roundup

  There’s a renewed focus in Washington on federal employee benefits. A slew of proposals aim to change how unused sick leave is credited toward retirement and provide paid leave for birth or adoption. There’s also…

  Federal Drive

  March 24, 2009
• Stoked on Spokes

  Do you bike to your federal job? The League of American Bicyclists wants to make the answer a resounding “yes!” And they’re taking the push to Capitol Hill. The league’s president, Andy Clark, joins us.

  Federal Drive

  March 23, 2009
• Monday Mail Call

  Mondays can be tough, even if it is spring, but in today\'s Monday Mail Call column Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has some stuff about you that should be uplifting.

  Mike Causey

  March 23, 2009
• Renewed interest in the public sector

  By Amy Morris Executive Editor FederalNewsRadio Working for the government is apparently more appealing than ever. Word today that more undergrads and MBA graduates are turning to the federal government for jobs. Q: Why the…

  Pay & Benefits

  March 20, 2009
• DoD’s NSPS under fire

  By Amy Morris Executive Editor, FederalNewsRadio The system which controls how 200,000 Defense Department employees are hired, compensated, promoted and rewarded is now under review. The National Security Personnel System (NSPS) has come under fire…

  Defense

  March 19, 2009
• Locking Step on the TSP

  Federal employees are one step closer to automatic enrollment in the Thrift Savings plan. House lawmakers have approved a provision that would automatically enroll new civilian federal workers. Originally, the plan would have included members…

  Federal Drive

  March 19, 2009