chained CPI

Pay, retirement reform: Round up the usual suspects

Congress is in the midst of “reforming” the federal government by rounding up overpaid bureaucrats and whittling back their break-the-bank benefits.

Federal Report

The lull before the lull

Mike Causey

CBO deficit report advises smaller fed workforce

Budget

What’s ahead for feds in 2015?

Mike Causey

What happens when you order steak and get Spam cutlets?

Mike Causey

The monster under your bed is real!

Mike Causey

A $48K hit to your retirement? Pray For Gridlock!

Mike Causey

Obama dumping chained CPI, which feds, employee groups strongly opposed

Budget

New bill aims to cancel sequestration for DoD at cost to feds’ pay and benefits

Budget

CBO: Congress could wring $300B in deficit savings from federal pay, pension changes

Congress

Government shutdown, chained COLA, and more

Mike Causey

Fed groups get in front of COLA calculation debate

The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, the Military Officers Association of America, the American Foreign Service Association and…

Benefits

Self plus one, chained CPI, & COLAs

NARFE’s David Snell will discuss the impact of a proposed change to how federal retirees’ cost-of-living adjustments are calculated.
September 4, 2013

Mike Causey

Is it ‘Jaws’ or ‘Sharknado’ for retirees?

Mike Causey

Picture yourself floating in a deep, dark swamp, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. There doesn’t appear to be any danger, except the pair of eyes watching you from the surface of the swamp. But what harm could they do? Ever hear of the federal version of the “Creature from the Black Lagoon?”