Social Security supplement

TSP, retirement

Why that 5.9% COLA is bad news

While certainly relief to Social Security recipients, that big adjustment is a sign of a scary economy.

Federal Report

FILE - This Feb. 2, 2015, file photo, depicts a part of a U.S. $100 bill. A growing majority of Americans want greater government spending on health care, and the increase is being driven by both Democrats and Republicans. That’s according to new data from the General Social Survey. The survey finds a desire for more spending on many government functions, including education and assistance to the poor, as President Donald Trump’s latest budget plan proposes to cut programs that are popular with the public. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Trump proposes federal pay raise, familiar retirement cuts in 2021 budget

Pay & Benefits

FILE - In this June 17, 2016 file photo, U.S. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., speaks to the new Oklahoma Highway Patrol Officers during their graduation ceremony in Edmond, Okla. Lankford and Oklahoma's four incumbent GOP U.S. House members who face challengers in this year's general election all have massive fundraising advantages and are heavy favorites in next month's general election. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Trump’s federal retirement cuts ‘dead on arrival,’ not focused on existing employees, senators say

Workforce

Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI

Familiar cuts to federal pay, retirement, health benefits included in Trump’s proposed 2020 budget

Budget

James Lankford waste book

Automatic promotions, other workforce challenges earn special attention in Lankford’s annual ‘waste book’

Congress

Defined Benefit Plan

House Budget Committee renews efforts to cut retirement benefits

Federal Newscast

The path forward for OPM’s proposed retirement changes

US President Donald J. Trump after a group photo on the second day of the G7 Summit at the Hotel San Domenico in Taormina, Sicily, Italy, 27 May 2017. (Angelo Carconi/ANSA via AP)

One-term Trump?

Federal Report

Investigators and firefighters work the scene of a fire and shooting Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, in Philadelphia. Police Department spokeswoman Leeloni Palmiero said its state police trooper has been shot in the shoulder after a fiery crash along Interstate 676. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Trump budget kicks his fed voter base: cops & firefighters

Federal Report

Pay freeze/pay cut/tax hike – then it gets worse!

Mike Causey