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What Thrift Savings Plan participants can look forward to this year

No one is looking back fondly on last year when it comes to the Thrift Savings Plan. The markets had a terrible year across the board.

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(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)FILE - This March 27, 2020 file photo shows the signature of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act after it passed in the House on Capitol Hill in Washington. Since the pandemic began, Congress has set aside trillions of dollars to ease the crisis. A joint KHN and Associated Press investigation finds that many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money on local public health departments for work such as testing and contact tracing. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Why the National Security Agency overpaid contractors during the height of the pandemic

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GAO finds agencies mostly managed telework network security with a few holes

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(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)FILE - This May 8, 2008, file photo shows blank checks on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies in Philadelphia. Officials at the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service said Friday, March 12, 2021 that processing the new round of stimulus payments has already begun, with the aim of having the first payments start showing up in bank accounts this weekend. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Pandemic oversight board to preserve data analytics tools beyond its sunset date

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Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation inspector general

Hazards of self-certification and other lessons learned from federal government’s pandemic response

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(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)FILE - This March 27, 2020 file photo shows the signature of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act after it passed in the House on Capitol Hill in Washington. Since the pandemic began, Congress has set aside trillions of dollars to ease the crisis. A joint KHN and Associated Press investigation finds that many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money on local public health departments for work such as testing and contact tracing. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

GAO: CARES Act provision keeping contractors afloat during pandemic showed great success

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If you thought federal contract spending shot through the roof last year, you’re right

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Veterans Affairs only spent about half of CARES Act money so far, GAO says

The Director of Health Care issues at the Government Accountability Office Sharon Silas discusses what the watchdog agency found.

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U.S. Secret Service police officers stand guard on the roof in front of the the American flag as it files at half-staff above the White House in Washington, Friday, April 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Secret Service lending a hand in nabbing COVID relief fraudsters

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Secret Service is wielding its investigative powers to take on COVID related financial fraud.

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Though the worst is over, CISA wants agencies on guard after SolarWinds breach

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In today’s Federal Newscast, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency wants to make sure agencies don’t let down their guard on Russian cyber threats.

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