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Federal locality pay: Broken or underfunded?

The Federal Salary Council is not recommending any new areas for 2022. But the council did engage in debate over the future of the federal locality program.

Pay

A federal employee’s guide to Trump and Biden’s 2020 campaign platforms

Management

Legislators hope to secure higher COLA for federal retirees

Federal Newscast

As locality pay list grows longer, feds may see ‘relatively lower pay increases,’ OPM says

Pay

All eyes on the Senate, will any other work get done?

Congress

Retiree checks to rise 1.3% in 2021 amid coronavirus fallout

Retirement

A bill to make the payroll tax deferral optional, and others worth watching

Congress

OPM proposes new limits on back pay for federal employees, unions

Pay

FILE - In this June 6, 2015, file photo, a customer, bottom, pays for goods while shopping at the Atlanta Farmers Market in Atlanta. Americans finally got a raise in 2015 after seven years of stagnating incomes, driven by big gains among the poorest households, according to information provided by the Census Bureau, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. Higher minimum wages in many states and tougher competition among businesses to fill jobs pushed up pay, while low inflation made those paychecks stretch further. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

6% raise, followed by a 12% cut

Federal Report

Lawmakers again want a payroll tax deferral opt-out for feds after ‘chaotic’ rollout

Pay

House members now pushing for way to let feds opt-out of payroll tax deferral

Federal Newscast

Dana Deasy Department of Defense, Chief Information Officer, poses for his official portrait in the Army portrait studio at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, May 07, 2018. (U.S. Army photo by William Pratt)

Pentagon says it’s working now to make sure JEDI hits the ground running

DoD CIO Dana Deasy says officials have been finding temporary homes for cloud applications that were counting on the long-delayed JEDI program. Other preparatory…

DoD Reporter's Notebook

What they’re saying about the payroll tax deferral

Military members and federal employee groups worry those impacted by the president’s mandatory payroll tax deferral aren’t getting the message about the…