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Buyout Watch: Who's Offering What
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The roster of federal agencies offering buyouts or early outs continues to grow, and we are tracking them.
Check back here for updates on agencies offering or considering the separation incentives, and let us know through the comment section if your agency should be added to the list.
| Agency | Date offered | Employees affected |
| Agriculture | March 2012 | Some 7,000 employees departmentwide have already taken buyouts, and more are expected. Offers were made to 1,966 Rural Development division employees. In May 2011: 544 employees eligible for buyouts; early outs offered departmentwide. In March 2012: 900 buyout offers are expected to yeild 300 buyouts, offset by 150 hires at lower grades. |
| Air Force | March 2012 | Officials announce a third round of buyouts following an earlier round this year and and a hiring freeze and 6000 buyouts and early-out offer in 2012. |
| Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives | Sept. 12 - Oct. 14, 2011 | 400 employees eligible for buyouts/early outs |
| Army | September 2011 | The Materiel Command is offering buyouts to 33 civilian employees as part of the Army's plan to cut 8,700 positions. |
| Commerce | August 2011 - December 2012 | 8 different offices |
| Defense | August 11, 2011 - September 30, 2011 | 35 senior executives were offered early outs and 12 accepted. |
| Education | September 2011 - January 2012 | 12 different offices |
| Energy | February 2012 | Los Alamos lab submits plan to give 400 to 800 buyouts. |
| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | No plans to offer buyouts. | |
| EPA | No plans to offer buyouts. | |
| FAA | No decision yet on whether to offer buyouts or early outs. | N/A |
| Federal Trade Commission | May 2011 | Agencywide |
| General Services Administration | January 2012 | Requested authority from OPM to offer buyout and early out incentives to less than 5 percent of the workforce. |
| Government Accountability Office | August 2011 (sought permission) | 56 positions, primarily management level, upper-level analysts and criminal investigators |
| Government Printing Office | June 2011 (sought permission) | Agencywide, with a target of reducing the workforce by 15 percent. 247 employees accepted the offer. |
| Health and Human Services | June 2011 (considering) | N/A |
| HUD | Aug. 8, 2011 - Aug. 18, 2011 | Office of Field Policy and Management in Region 9 |
| Internal Revenue Service | January 2012 | Additional 400 offers announced in January. In November, 1,600 offers were extended to 5,400 employees. |
| International Trade Commission | No plans currently to offer buyouts | |
| Justice | January 2011; Expects more later this year | Anti-trust division employees |
| Labor | Declined to comment. | |
| Library of Congress | Oct. 24, 2011 - Nov. 3, 2011; applications due Oct. 3, 2011 | Targeted positions affecting roughly 350 employees |
| NASA | Through November | 50 packages available to 147 at headquarters through November 18; The Kennedy Space Center in Florida offered 150 buyouts; The Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., offered 50 packages and had 15 approved by Sept. The Johnson Space Center in Houston offered 150 employee buyouts through Sept. 30. Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama is offering buyouts to 120 workers. |
| National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency | January 2012 | Offering to 150 employees who have until February to respond. |
| Nuclear Regulatory Commission | Offered first round in June 2011; currently exploring option to offer more | offered to 48 employees, 35 accepted |
| Postal Service | May 2012 | 45,000 mail handlers eligible for $15,000 buyouts if they give notice by July 2; $20,000 early-out incentives offered to eligible postmasters in plan announced May 2012. Buyouts offered to 7,500 administrative employees in March 2011. |
| Small Business Administration | December 2011 | Buyout and early-out offers went to 300 employees in October, and 130 accepted |
| Smithsonian Institution | May 16, 2011 - July 22, 2011 | Exemptions for animal keepers, electricians, police officers, security guards and veterinary medical officers, and employees paid from private funds. |
| Transportation Security Administration | Oct. 1, 2011, to Sept. 30, 2013 | The Homeland Security Department is seeking authority for early outs. |
| USAID | No plans to offer early outs or buyouts. | |
| Veterans Affairs | Early out authority requested for 11 regional networks to standardize the VA's billing and collection activities. Early outs offered to eligible employees in the Office of General Counsel, effective Sept. 30 |
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