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.
The 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill includes language specifically targeting federal telework reporting requirements.
FSAFEDS is lifting a temporary suspension on reimbursement payments. But employees are expressing frustration with the lack of communication ahead of the pause.
Once agencies hand in their information, OPM will pass it along to both the Republican and Democratic parties for their review ahead of the November election.
Larger impacts of OPM’s hiring changes are likely further down the road, but early signs are pointing in the right direction for early-career recruitment.
With stricter measures on who can enroll — and stay enrolled — in FEHB, OPM should be able to more effectively address cost issues in the program, GAO said.
One former official questioned why OPM and the FSAFEDS program didn’t have stronger fraud controls in place before recent reports of fraudulent deductions.
A Democrat-led bill aiming to broadly expand IVF access has specific implications for feds through the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program.
Colleen Heller-Stein, former deputy CHCO at the Treasury Department, is the first-ever career federal executive to serve as executive director CHCO Council.
Along with warning of what they said would be a dangerous return of Schedule F, the group called on Congress to enact reforms to modernize the civil service.
May's backlog is just 1,035 claims higher than the steady state goal of 13,000, the lowest backlog OPM has seen since May of 2016.
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.
The employee advocacy group is asking OPM to expand health carrier requirements to cover IVF treatments, on top of medications, for plan year 2025.
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.
Federal employees should look for a check in the mail if they were impacted by the OPM data breach.