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House Panel Advances Bills to Protect Feds’ Insurance During Shutdowns
Legislation would ensure that workers can adjust health benefits following significant life events and prevent their dental, vision and long-term care coverage from lapsing.
Civilian Pay Raise Advances, TSP Prepares More Changes
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
House Panel Approves 3.1% Pay Raise for Feds in 2020
The bill advanced by the House Appropriations Committee to the House floor Tuesday also would increase funding for a number of civilian agencies.
VA Faces Multi-Faceted Challenges to Its Attempts at Firing and Accountability Reform
The department can no longer publicly post its disciplinary data.
Disputes Over Pay, Layoffs Create Impasse Between USPS and 200K Employees
Union and agency will head to interest arbitration.
Buy This and Hope You Don’t Get Your Money’s Worth
The ins and outs of life insurance.
Retirement Claims Backlog Inches Down in May
The pile of pending claims shrunk by nearly 600 last month and is slightly smaller than it was at the same time last year.
TSP Seeks Fund Managers, Prepares New Withdrawal Options
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Presidential Hopeful Aims to Give Feds Faster Access to Student Loan Forgiveness
Federal employees would no longer have to wait until they had served 10 years.
House Panel Advances Spending Bill With 3.1% Pay Raise for Feds
The measure also would block the Trump administration’s plan to merge the Office of Personnel Management with the General Services Administration.
TSP Funds End May Mostly in the Red
Only two funds within the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program posted gains last month.
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