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Both federal civilian employees and active-duty military members will see temporary changes to their take-home pay as a result of the president's tax deferral, a senior administration official told Federal News Network. Though civilian employees and the military will see savings later this month, they're expected to pay back deferred taxes starting next January.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office says not all agencies have been tracking time and attendance fraud consistently.
The agency stood up its Enterprise Digitalization and Case Management Office in July to digitize paper-based taxpayer services and consolidate its case-management systems.
In today's Federal Newscast, early retirement and buyout offers the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation made to employees back in March are off the table.
In today's Federal Newscast, more members of Congress are calling on Citizenship and Immigration Services to delay upcoming employee furloughs at the end of the month.
IRS staff members knew ahead of time that some of the individual payments for pandemic relief would go to the deceased because of how timely vital records data comes in from Social Security.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) suggested giving the IRS $2 billion under the Technology Modernization Fund and then letting agencies use the savings from the tax agency for other projects.
Russ Martin, associate Treasury inspector general for tax administration, shares some results from a review of how the IRS did in distributing stimulus checks.
Improper payments to prisoners and the deceased amounted to 0.04% of CARES Act dollars.
The work resulted in the rescue of 25 children and the arrest of the site administrator. Team members are finalists in this year's Service to America Medals program.
In today's Federal Newscast, a bicameral group of Democrats say top leadership vacancies at the Federal Emergency Management Agency are unacceptable.
Dave Lebryk, the Treasury Department's fiscal assistant secretary, said the IRS has already recovered about 70% of the $1.6 billion in improper payments to the deceased and expects the agency to find more returned checks in its backlog of unopened mail.
Officials who want to finally trigger the long-predicted brain drain from federal agencies can probably do it rather quickly.
In today's Federal Newscast, Defense Secretary Mark Esper bans photographs from being used in the process to promote officers and enlisted service members.