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Time for a reality check

Tom O’Rourke, a Washington-area tax and estate attorney and former IRS lawyer, shares his plan to allow federal employees to double their money and to…

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Democratic lawmakers propose 5.1% average pay raise for federal employees

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Inflation corrodes everything, including your old age

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Once again in 2022, your actual federal pay raise depends a lot on where you work

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(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Gasoline prices are displayed at a station in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.8% in November compared with a year earlier as surging costs for food, energy, housing and other items left Americans enduring their highest annual inflation rate since 1982. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Is 2022 the start of big time inflation?

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Biden makes 2022 federal pay raise official for civilian employees

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Another year, another call for ‘major legislative reforms’ to the federal pay system

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Close up of female hands counting US dollar banknotes at the table in front a laptop computer. Woman accountant with money and notebook.

Thousands of feds won’t get all — or any — of the January raise!

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January COLA or January raise: Why not both?

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DoD’s average housing subsidy sees big increase as real estate continues to get pricier

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Sunlight shines on the U.S. Capitol dome, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

NDAA has big changes for personnel, even though some blockbuster provisions are changed

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Your federal pay raise prospects, under (yet another) CR

A continuing resolution through February doesn’t necessarily change the White House’s plans for a federal pay raise for civilian employees next year. But…

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This Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, photo shows a Social Security card in Tigard, Ore. Millions of retirees on Social Security will get a 5.9% boost in benefits for 2022. The biggest cost-of-living adjustment in 39 years follows a burst in inflation as the economy struggles to shake off the drag of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Inflation alert: Are you on the Titanic or the iceberg?

The January cost of living adjustmnent for most retired feds, military and Social Security reciepents will be 5.9%. But the keyword is “most.”

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AbilityOne, workers with disabilities, people with disabilities

AbilityOne seeks to end minimum wage exception for disabled workers at nonprofit contractors

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Nonprofit contractors employing people with disabilities through the AbilityOne program have not been bound to pay minimum wages, with many employees consistently receiving sub-minimum wages.