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• Mental and physical health conditions get equal out-of-network coverage 11/20/09 Starting in 2010, insurers will eliminate differences in co-payments and lift a restriction on number of visits.
• Most TSA employees are in line for performance-based payouts 11/20/09 Unions say the system is arbitrary, however, because the quality of work required for a given raise fluctuates.
• House panel approves domestic partner benefits 11/18/09 Bill extends health care and other employment benefits to partners of gay and lesbian federal employees.

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• TSP launches campaign to boost employee participation 11/16/09 Automatic agency contributions continue to produce jump in plan enrollment.
• Maryland lawmaker tries to ease federal employees' fears about health care 11/16/09 Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen says reform would not adversely affect FEHBP enrollees.
• Insurer sends wrong benefit information to long-term care enrollees 11/13/09
• Appeals judges deny request for locality pay 11/13/09

• 2010 Federal Leave Chart 11/12/09
• Quiz: Are you tailor-made for telework? 11/11/09
• Telework quiz results 11/11/09
• Salary council makes 2011 locality pay rate recommendations 11/10/09
• Agencies promote telework as a powerful tool, not a panacea 11/09/09
• Federal employees have fewer health insurance choices this year 11/06/09
• Postal Service eyes options beyond layoffs and buyouts 11/05/09
• Legislators clash over health care reform's impact on FEHBP 11/04/09

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