Pay & Benefits
Long-Term Care Insurance: What Should You Do About Rate Hikes?
In the face of steep premium increases, participants face tough choices.
Pay & Benefits
Obama Has Until Aug. 31 to Offer Alternate Pay Raise Plan
Feds likely will receive a 1.6 percent pay increase in fiscal 2017, unless Congress intervenes.
Pay & Benefits
Purchase Card Oversight, Health Benefit Adjustment and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Pay & Benefits
Feds Move Nearly $2 Billion in TSP Savings to Safe, Low-Yield Investments Post-Brexit
Board cautions that enrollees keeping money in the G Fund are losing out on potential gains.
Pay & Benefits
Virginia Lawmakers Demand Answers on Long-Term Care Insurance Price Spike
Federal enrollees who do not change their coverage would end up paying $111 more per month on average for the insurance.
Pay & Benefits
OPM to Agencies: Let Feds Telework to Avoid Heat
Federal employees can also adjust their daily schedules to avoid high temperatures.
Pay & Benefits
Is Phased Retirement For You?
Assessing the option of gradually easing into post-government life.
Pay & Benefits
TRICARE Bill Would Decrease Government Revenue By $97 Million Over Next Decade
CBO estimates legislation allowing vets to opt in and out of military health care system to take advantage of health savings accounts would affect tax revenue.
Pay & Benefits
Wage Scale Change, Vets’ Preference Expansion, No-Interest Loans and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Management
Defense Secretary Warns of ‘Widespread Negative Consequences’ If Senior Executive Corps is Cut
Ash Carter sent a letter to Capitol Hill objecting to several provisions in the NDAA, including one calling for a 25 percent SES reduction by 2019.
Pay & Benefits
GOP Platform: Cut Feds’ Pay and Benefits While Making It Easier to Fire Them
Democratic platform largely silent on federal employee issues.
Pay & Benefits
Long-Term Care Insurance Premiums Will Increase An Average of 83 Percent on Nov. 1
Most enrollees will see their rates spike unless they make changes to their coverage by Sept. 30.
Pay & Benefits
Are Federal Pay and Benefits Too Generous?
A conservative Washington think tank claims they are in a new set of proposed personnel reforms.
Management
Former Presidential Candidate Tries Again To Remove Bad VA Employees
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio introduced another accountability bill that aims to make it easier to fire all department workers.
Pay & Benefits
Pay Raise Progress, Protections Against Layoffs, a Delay in SafeTrack Relief and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Pay & Benefits
Bill Would Allow Special Pay, Bonuses for Hard-to-Fill Federal Jobs
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D. introduces measure to provide new flexibilities to attract workers to remote locations.
Management
House: No Bonuses For DHS Officials Who Can’t Take Care of Government Cars
The chamber passed a bill tying performance awards to stronger oversight of department’s vehicle fleets.
Pay & Benefits
Outlook for 2017 COLA Will Get a Bit Clearer Later This Week
The next data point comes out on Friday, but it’s too soon to tell if retirees will receive a modest boost, or no COLA, next year.
Pay & Benefits