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How important to recruiting is a traditional pension plan?

Government employee recruitment often relies on the appeal of the mission. Still people want to be paid and have some financial security.

Hiring/Retention

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Why you need a strategy when it’s time to claim Social Security benefits

Retirement

Proposed 2% federal pay raise gets support in 2025 defense authorization bill

Pay

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Why it pays to think twice about paying off that mortgage before retirement

Retirement

Spanberger demands VA clean up its act when awarding financial incentives

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American Federation of Government Employees

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TSA, AFGE see milestone contract as ‘pivot point’ for frontline workforce

Unions

Sweeping VA bill seeks more pay flexibility for health care workers, stricter EHR requirements

Veterans Affairs

VA paid nearly $11M in bonuses to ineligible executives, watchdog finds

Pay

Since recent pay raise, fewer feds leaving TSA

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VA reviewing 4,000 positions at risk of pay downgrade

Pay

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Commentary

TSA employees will keep their pay raises under 2024 spending deal

Pay at TSA was reportedly one of the crunch-time issues for lawmakers negotiating the contentious fiscal 2024 homeland security spending bill.

Pay

Federal Wage System for blue-collar feds puts some above, others below, local rates

After decades of annual pay caps, wages for blue-collar feds in 75% of Federal Wage System localities no longer align with “prevailing” local rates.

Pay

TSA, AFGE aim to expand workforce options in new 7-year contract

Unions

After AFGE ratified the new bargaining agreement for TSA, agency leaders will have to give the contract a final sign-off before implementation begins.