NARFE

FEHB, OPM, GAO costs, Stethoscope and money on wooden table representing health care, FEHB plans.

There’s a catch in USPS insurance program for Medicare-eligible retirees

USPS annuitants who opt out of Medicare Part D will lose underlying prescription drug coverage, according to OPM’s regulations.

Open Season

WEP & GPO repeal, Schedule F among issues facing Congress

Congress

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Some feds continue to see fraudulent FSAFEDS deductions

Benefits

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Former senior officials join rising calls for an alternative to Schedule F

Workforce

(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Another attempt to determine if federal employees are underpaid

Pay

Congress again ponders updating Social Security policy for non-eligible federal retirees

Retirement

Repeal or reform? House lawmakers weigh responses to WEP, GPO

Congress

May We Say Thank You 2024

Campaigns

Federal employee groups want to know why civilians can’t get the same raise as military members this year

Federal Newscast

As agencies face budget uncertainty, Democrats propose a 7.4% pay raise for feds

Pay

best places to work in the federal government, small business, VBA

Heading into 2024, OPM ‘fundamentally rethinking’ federal hiring

Hiring/Retention

Telework changes, hiring reforms of 2023 charting a course into the new year

Telework and return-to-office changes at agencies were far from the only pivot for the federal workforce in 2023.

Workforce

After years of delays, the TSP’s I fund will track a new index starting in 2024

After several years of delays and controversy, the TSP’s I fund will transition to tracking a new, broadened benchmark index, but will exclude investments…

TSP

The government could still close, but your health insurance will march on

Open Season

Both open and closed seasons are coming up. November 17 will mark the end of the continuing resolution, so the government could close when the money runs out. Just a few days earlier, open season arrives. That is when federal employees choose a health insurance carrier for 2024. For the rundown on all of this, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with John Hatton, of the National Active and Retired Federal Employee Association (NARFE).