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Kellie Lunney
Senior Correspondent
Kellie Lunney covers federal pay and benefits issues, the budget process and financial management. After starting her career in journalism at Government Executive in 2000, she returned in 2008 after four years at sister publication National Journal writing profiles of influential Washingtonians. In 2006, she received a fellowship at the Ohio State University through the Kiplinger Public Affairs in Journalism program, where she worked on a project that looked at rebuilding affordable housing in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. She has appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, NPR and Feature Story News, where she participated in a weekly radio roundtable on the 2008 presidential campaign. In the late 1990s, she worked at the Housing and Urban Development Department as a career employee. She is a graduate of Colgate University.
Social Security official’s term expires next week
January 8, 2013 This story has been updated. The head of the Social Security Administration could be out in less than two weeks, and it’s not clear yet who will replace him. President Obama has not nominated a successor to Michael Astrue, a George W. Bush appointee whose six-year term expires on Jan. ...
GSA boosts mileage reimbursement rate
January 7, 2013 The General Services Administration increased the mileage reimbursement rate for federal employees who use their private vehicles for work, as of Jan. 1, 2013. The rate for cars will be 56.5 cents per mile, an increase of one cent over the current rate of 55.5 cents. The boost matches the ...
Retirement claims backlog falls 57 percent in 2012
January 7, 2013 The federal retirement claims backlog fell 57 percent from January 2012 to December 2012, according to the latest figures from the Office of Personnel Management. The inventory now stands at 26,402 retirement claims, down from 61,108 claims in January 2012. OPM reported that it has 10 percent fewer pending claims ...
Feds see paychecks shrink with payroll tax hike
January 4, 2013 Federal employees will see less money in their first 2013 paycheck because of the end of the payroll tax holiday. The payroll tax holiday officially expired on Jan.1, and Congress did not renew it as part of the final compromise on the fiscal cliff. The government reduced the payroll tax ...
Treasury jobs relocation on hold
January 4, 2013 The Treasury Department won’t start relocating hundreds of federal employees from Maryland to West Virginia until the end of 2019, according to news releases. Treasury has put plans on hold to move 450 Financial Management Service employees based in Hyattsville, Md., to Parkersburg, W.Va., giving workers a six-year reprieve. Treasury ...
Military pay raise becomes law
January 3, 2013 President Obama on Wednesday signed into law the fiscal 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a 1.7 percent pay raise for service members and a provision directing the Pentagon to reduce its civilian and contractor workforces. The White House previously threatened a veto on the measure because of several ...
Pay and Benefits, Post-Holiday and Post-Cliff
January 3, 2013 The last week has been a blur for everyone tuned into the fiscal cliff drama. The marathon legislative sessions on Capitol Hill between Christmas and New Year’s Day produced lots of federal compensation news but because of the evolving nature of the debate, it was tough to keep track of ...
Feds safe from pay freeze extension – for now
January 2, 2013 This story has been updated. A House-passed bill to extend the pay freeze for civilian federal workers will die with the 112th Congress, but the debate over whether to raise feds’ pay in 2013 is far from over. The Senate did not address House-approved legislation (H.R. 6726) on Wednesday that ...
Obama orders end to pay freeze in spring
December 28, 2012 As Congress and the White House remain entangled in last-minute fiscal cliff negotiations, President Obama has made one thing clear: he wants an end to the two-year pay civilian federal employee pay freeze next spring. On Thursday, Obama issued an executive order that would lift the freeze and implement a ...
Congress approves Defense measure
December 21, 2012 The Senate on Friday approved the conference report on the fiscal 2013 Defense authorization bill, which includes a pay raise for service members and a provision directing the Pentagon to reduce its civilian and contractor workforces. The House passed the compromise on the legislation Thursday evening; it now heads to ...
