TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
CBP Could Escape Furloughs
Feds Flock to TSP's L Funds
EIG 2013 as Told by Your Tweets
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
The Big Squeeze: Defense Under Sequester
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
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.
Obama Budget Would Increase Federal Workforce
April 23, 2013 The size of the federal workforce would grow by 6,180 employees under President Obama’s proposed fiscal 2014 budget. The departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Veterans Affairs would account for the estimated 0.3 percent increase in full-time civilian employees in executive agencies between this year and next, according to the ...
VA to Fast-Track Oldest Disability Claims
April 19, 2013 The Veterans Affairs Department on Friday announced that it would fast-track disability claims from vets who have been waiting a year or longer for benefits. The move will allow many vets to receive compensation more quickly, and give them an extra year to submit any additional evidence that would increase ...
Senators to Pentagon: Let Services Avoid Furloughs If They Can
April 18, 2013 Lawmakers are urging the Pentagon not to impose across-the-board furloughs if some agencies and offices within the department can come up with the savings to avoid them. Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King are questioning the department’s approach to spread furloughs evenly among affected employees to maintain fairness and ...
Furloughs Begin Across Executive Branch
April 17, 2013 Employee furloughs at the Labor Department officially started this week, a union official confirmed. The number of furlough days for affected employees range across the department’s agencies, with some workers taking unpaid leave for up to two days while others are missing up to eight days of pay. The furloughs ...
Bill Aims to Give Agencies Furlough Flexibility
April 16, 2013 Senate legislation introduced Monday would allow federal agencies to decide which employees should stay on the job during sequestration. The bill would exempt “essential employees” from furlough during sequestration, using the same language to differentiate essential and nonessential employees as during a government shutdown. An essential employee is one who ...
House Rejects Bill That Would Allow Uncle Sam to Fire Federal Tax Cheats
April 15, 2013 The House voted down legislation on Monday evening -- Tax Day -- that would allow the government to fire federal employees who fail to pay their taxes. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, revived a bill earlier this year that he shepherded through the House during the 112th Congress. The legislation passed ...
Memorial Remembers Feds Killed on the Job
April 12, 2013 A simple but elegant wall in an otherwise nondescript federal building in Washington now serves as a memorial to government employees killed in the line of duty. Fifty-two silver stars, one for each state, the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories, are flanked by two American flags under the ...
Senior Execs’ Finances Won’t Go Online
April 12, 2013 Senior federal employees will not have to disclose their personal finances for an online public database under legislation Congress approved on Friday. Both chambers agreed to end a requirement in the 2012 Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act for senior career executives and congressional staff to disclose their finances for ...
OPM Director Berry Bids Farewell to Employees
April 11, 2013 Elaine Kaplan, currently general counsel at the Office of Personnel Management, will take over as acting director of the agency next week. OPM Director John Berry formally announced his departure from the agency in an April 11 email to employees. Kaplan, who has been at the agency since March 2009, ...
A Mixed Budget Bag for Feds
April 11, 2013 Budget Day 2013 has finally arrived. Federal employees should not be surprised by the pay and benefits proposals in President Obama’s latest plan, as this is a well-traveled road with all the familiar twists and turns. Obama wants government workers to contribute more to their pensions starting in 2014, a ...
