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Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget in Washington, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP)

Democrats reintroduce bill to give feds 8.7% average pay raise next year

In what has become tradition in recent years, a bicameral pair of Democrats proposed a bill to give most civilian federal employees an 8.7% pay raise in 2024.

Pay

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FILE - In this June 12, 2019, file photo, clouds roll over the U.S. Capitol dome as dusk approaches in Washington. The committee charged with helping Republicans wrest control of the House next year raised $45.4 million over the last three months, a record quarterly haul during a year without a national election. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Reintroduced bills aim to fix hiring process, Social Security benefits for feds

Congress

House Republicans introduce plans to revive ‘Holman rule’ in Congress

Congress

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Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., is interviewed about the Relay, an electric autonomous vehicle, in Fairfax, Va., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. The future of transportation arrived in northern Virginia, looking like a big blue toaster on wheels that can seat six and drive itself through the region’s notorious traffic. State and local officials debuted the Relay system Thursday, an all-electric, autonomous vehicle that will provide free shuttle rides back and forth from the Dunn Loring Metrorail stop to the bustling Mosaic District in Fairfax County, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Language to block future Schedule F absent from compromise version of NDAA

Workforce

Open Season 2023 FEHB Guide

Federal Insights

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OPM to suspend applications for Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program

Pay & Benefits

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For 2023, federal retirees will see largest COLA increase in over 40 years

Retirement

A few recommendations from federal health experts ahead of this year’s open season

Open Season

House heightens calls to change feds’ Social Security benefits, workplace safety plans

Congress

FILE - The U.S. Capitol in Washington is pictured on Friday, August 5, 2022. Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022, a compromise less ambitious than Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Bill to prevent Schedule F from resurfacing advances out of House committee

Congress

FILE - People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors in the Medicare program. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share. And billions leftover to pay down federal deficits. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Five federal workforce items on Congress’ to-do list

Congress

House advances some key agency spending provisions for 2023

The House’s passage of a government spending package has a few key implications for federal agencies in fiscal 2023.

Congress

NARFE’s FED CON 22

FEDcon22 is NARFE’s premier national conference for the federal community.

Federal Insights

William “Bill” Shackelford, retired from the FBI: ‘My final major assignment was … the recovery of FBI records … after Hurricane Katrina.’

Federal Insights

During nearly 35 years with the FBI, William “Bill” Shackelford moved up the ranks from a fingerprint technician to the bureau’s archives specialist. Learn about him now during Federal News Network’s May We Say Thank You event.