Office of Personnel Management

Why you need a strategy when it’s time to claim Social Security benefits

Social Security taxes start automatically the day you start working. But when the time comes you have got to file an application to get your benefits.

Retirement

First Look

More House appropriators target federal telework, office space

Congress

FSAFEDS to restart payments after 10-day suspension on reimbursements

Benefits

OPM deadline nears for agencies to hand over list of their politically appointed positions

Federal Newscast

Early-career federal job openings seeing ‘renewed and increased’ interest, OPM’s Shriver says

Hiring/Retention

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

Centralized FEHB database key to OPM cost savings, GAO says

Open Season

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Some feds continue to see fraudulent FSAFEDS deductions

Benefits

Senate GOP blocks bill to expand IVF access as advocates call for better FEHB coverage

Congress

Treasury’s Heller-Stein stepping in to lead the CHCO Council

People

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

Workforce

OPM retirement claims backlog at lowest level since May 2016

Retirement

Return-to-office review: Employees call for flexibility, while legislation lags

With the federal return-to-office conversation always in flux, Federal News Network wants to keep you up-to-date on what it all means for federal employees.

Workforce

In this Tuesday, May 15, 2018, photo, scientist Fabrice De Bond picks up a vial containing frozen donor sperm samples in a lab at Melbourne IVF in Melbourne, Australia. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

DoJ employee advocacy group calls for better federal health care coverage of infertility treatments

The employee advocacy group is asking OPM to expand health carrier requirements to cover IVF treatments, on top of medications, for plan year 2025.

Federal Newscast

Democrats warn layoffs ahead as House GOP proposes agency spending cuts

Budget

Democrats say an appropriations bill with 10% spending cuts to covered agencies would leave no choice but to implement staff reductions to make ends meet.