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In its 2019 spending proposal, the House Budget Committee wants federal employees to contribute more toward a defined benefit retirement plan, while ending the Social Security supplement for those who retire before age 62.
The 150-member Republican Study Committee has listed its budget priorities for 2019, calling for eliminating all automatic pay raises for federal workers, and increasing their contributions to their own retirement. The conservative group's also wants to make it easier for federal employees to be fired.
Federal retirement expert Tammy Flanagan joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to shine some light on more recent retirement statistics.
If you were job-hunting, would you apply to a place where the CEOs regularly froze your pay and the board of directors had its eye on your pension plan? Sound familiar?
The Office of Personnel Management has reported a backlog of unprocessed federal employees' retirement claims that is significantly higher than it was a year ago, just before it expects to receive a spike in new cases in 2018.
President Donald Trump has signed legislation allowing federal workers more flexibility in taking withdrawals from their retirement savings.
Sarkis Tatigian, 94, just marked his 75th anniversary as a Navy employee, but says he has no immediate plans to retire.
The Office of Personnel Management hasn't seen much progress in reducing its backlog of unprocessed federal employee retirement claims after experiencing an uptick in claims earlier this summer.
After years of people complaining that nothing was getting done because of gridlock between Congress and the White House, suddenly lots of federal workers and retirees are now worried that gridlock will go away.
If you're a federal employee, the budget proposal comes with some interesting policy ideas. You probably won't like them.
Many of the ideas President Donald Trump outlined in his March budget blueprint remain the same in his final budget proposal, which he released Tuesday. But federal employees will notice other proposals that are new — and have the potential to impact them directly.
The Thrift Savings Plans is seeing red for the first time in 2017, after two funds posted negative numbers in March.
The Office of Personnel Management posted its highest backlog of federal retirement claims since October 2015, though it will likely spend the rest of the year bringing that total down, now that its "busy season" is over.
Kim Weaver, director of external affairs for the Thrift Savings Plan, joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn to answer your questions about how the TSP works. February 22, 2017