Pay & Benefits

Pay and Benefits News

• You can’t take it with you — or can you?

  One of the great fears of people planning for retirement is running out of, or low on money while they are still breathing.

  Mike Causey Federal Report
  February 21, 2020
• Most dangerous jobs: Are you on the list?

  While there are some really dangerous federal jobs, including law enforcement officers, firefighters and prison personnel, even the 9-to-5 office positions are pretty scary now.

  Mike Causey Federal Report
  February 20, 2020
• Jeff Neal: Taking the long view of federal employment

  It’s been a tough few weeks for federal employees, at least for those who worry about their jobs, their pay and their retirements.

  Workforce
  February 19, 2020
• Pentagon announces plan to downsize nearly 50 hospitals, clinics

  DoD’s plan to restructure military treatment facilities would affect 50 hospitals and clinics, primarily by restricting their services to active duty service members only.

  Defense
  February 19, 2020
• How long will you live? How’s your cash flow?

  For many people nearing retirement, running out of money is one of the top fears. Unless they work for the federal government.

  Mike Causey Federal Report
  February 19, 2020
• WEP and Offset: The Social Security killers

  The two decades-old laws impact, as in reduce or almost eliminate, the Social Security benefits of 1.8 million public servants.

  Mike Causey Federal Report
  February 18, 2020
• Despite last year’s victories, familiar challenges resurface for AFGE in 2020

  The American Federation of Government Employees said it faces a series of familiar challenges again this year, despite the addition of new paid parental leave benefits and a federal pay raise victory.

  AFGE
  February 14, 2020
• Why many outside investors envy your TSP

  When you leave government are you going to keep your optional retirement nest egg in the Thrift Savings Plan, or move some or all of it to an outside investment option? And does it matter?

  Mike Causey Federal Report
  February 14, 2020
• VA initiative looks to fill shortage of medical practitioners in rural areas

  Veterans in rural areas often have to deal with a shortage of medical practitioners — a new Veterans Affairs initiative is aiming to fix that.

  Veterans Affairs
  February 13, 2020
• January raise: Don’t spend it yet, but …

  The likely amount is now a 3.5% bump up in January 2021, but anything could happen.

  Mike Causey Federal Report
  February 13, 2020
• OPM recommends paid parental leave corrections, new employee benefits in 2021 budget

  The Office of Personnel Management has its own recommendations for correcting the new federal paid parental leave law, as well as a wide range of other legislative proposals for 2021.

  OPM
  February 12, 2020
• Downsizing your pay/pension for life

  In what’s become the administration’s evergreen budget plan, the White House has again proposed that federal workers kick in more of their salary toward their retirement plan in return for smaller lifetime annuities that are frozen when they retire.

  Mike Causey Federal Report
  February 12, 2020
• Time to rethink federal pay and benefits

  No one gets paid what they deserve. But everyone deserves a little stability.

  Tom Temin Commentary
  February 11, 2020
• The end is near — again

  If history repeats itself, the budget President Donald Trump sent to Congress Monday afternoon will again be a political bombshell

  Mike Causey Federal Report
  February 11, 2020

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