National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association

The two decades-old laws impact, as in reduce or almost eliminate, the Social Security benefits of 1.8 million public servants.

NARFE president Ken Thomas says last year’s White House budget proposal “breaks promises to both current and future retirees.”

Lots of people who live in high tax states relocate for retirement.

A 3.1% federal pay raise is a key feature of one of two “minibus” spending bills, which congressional appropriators unveiled Monday evening. Both the House and Senate are expected to quickly vote on both this week before Friday’s funding deadline.

Twelve weeks of paid parental leave is the main attraction in the House-passed defense authorization bill, but it has a lot more for civilian federal employees.

In its most specific take yet on the Trump administration’s proposed merger of the Office of Personnel Management with the General Services Administration, Congress also commissioned the National Academy of Public Administration to conduct a top-to-bottom review of OPM.

Congress and the White House have struck a deal to include 12 weeks of paid parental leave for federal employees in the upcoming defense authorization bill. But the program would only grant parental leave, not paid time off to care for a sick family member, as originally envisioned by House Democrats.

Have you asked yourself all the right questions about your retirement?

Is the government using the wrong measuring tool to track inflation and thus producing the wrong cost of living adjustments?

Federal employees, members of Congress and good government governments remember the late House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman, Elijah Cummings, as a champion for the federal workforce and a staunch and vocal supporter of whistleblowers.