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Facing the possibility of furloughs next month, some employees at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are looking for temporary work or a new job altogether. Others plan to tap into their retirement savings and Thrift Savings Plan to stay afloat.
During times like this, when a pandemic is still running wild, it’s a good question. The old rules and odds don’t apply.
How are investors handling the current, very unstable and sometimes scary market? Mike Causey heard from two TSP investors.
Citing the coronavirus pandemic and ongoing economic uncertainty, the Trump administration said Monday it will cancel the highest honors for career civil servants this year.
An IG inspection found half a billion dollars in unfunded maintenance items at DoD health care facilities, including at least seven that could cause death or serious injuries.
A bipartisan group of House members say civilian employees should earn a 3% federal pay raise next year, a figure that matches what military members are on track to receive in 2021.
About as many federal employees submitted retirement claims in June as the month before, but the Office of Personnel Management was able to reduce the backlog this time.
The Office of Personnel Management will propose new regulations establishing Des Moines, Iowa, a new brand new locality pay area. The move will impact at least 2,500 employees in the region.
Congress is in a tug-of-war itself over immigration policies, and the bargaining chip is a $1.2 billion bailout that must come by Aug. 3 or else.
The Government Accountability Office found that the bureau has not evaluated whether the data sources it feeds into the indexes produce accurate ones.
A lot of people who retired last year or earlier this year probably wish they hadn’t. Most are living on less.
The latest budget proposal from the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government made no mention of a federal pay raise in 2021. In their silence, House appropriators are essentially deferring to the president's proposed 1% pay raise for federal employees next year.
Thanks to the coronavirus' hit on the world economy, the number of federal workers and retirees with million-dollar Thrift Savings Plan accounts now stands at 47,219.
The president is already planning for a 1% federal pay raise for civilian employees for 2021, but Congress may -- if it has time -- pass its own proposal before the year ends. A House appropriations markup on Wednesday may give federal employees a glimpse at what's to come.