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A Perk For Feds: Cheaper Seats at the Old Ball Game
Washington Nationals offer discounts to government employees, military service members.
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It’s Official: Family and Medical Leave Act Now Includes Spouses of Gay Feds
OPM’s final rule codifies benefits that have been available since 2013 to federal employees in same-sex marriages.
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Defense Has Wrongly Taxed Disabled Combat Vets For Years
New legislation would correct a problem that may have affected as many as 14,000 vets, going back as far as 1991.
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Are You Getting the Credit You Deserve?
It pays to check your official service records well before you’re ready to retire.
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Financial Advice in Your Best Interest, Workplace Flexibility and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
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Feds’ Long Term Care Insurance Premiums Will Rise Sharply in 2016
OPM is working to allow more policy customization to offset costs.
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Retirement Backlog Still High Despite Slight Progress
OPM managed to process nearly 10,000 applications in March, but the backlog still stands at more than 19,000 claims.
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Senior VA Health Executives Could Earn More Money Under Department Proposal
The draft legislation would also make it easier to punish top career officials.
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TSP Rebounds in March
All of the funds end the month in the black, with one gaining more than 8 percent.
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Are Your Retirement Dreams Realistic?
The world is going to change a lot in the next several decades.
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Mandatory Coverage of Autism Treatment Could Affect FEHBP Premiums
Insurance carriers have to submit their 2017 benefit and rate proposals to OPM by May 31.
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How a Deadlocked Supreme Court Provided a Major Boost to Federal Employee Unions
A decision this week was a win for state and local government unions, but helps feds too.
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Washington Teleworks, Benefits Changes, Defense Hiring Freeze, and More
The latest in federal pay and benefits news.
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A Divided Supreme Court Hands Public-Sector Unions a Win
The justices split 4-4 in Friedrichs v. CTA, leaving a pro-union ruling in the lower courts intact.
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How Poor Pay and Bad Planning Has Led to Diminished Medical Care for Federal Prisoners
The Bureau of Prisons is wasting money by maintaining significant medical staffing shortfalls.
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HUD Seeks to Recoup Nearly $150,000 From Public Housing Authorities That Overpaid Executives
Six PHAs in California, New Jersey, and New York violated a federal spending compensation cap on top officials in 2014.
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Winning the Three-Legged Race to Financial Security
Making the most of your benefits and personal savings.
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House GOP Doubles Down on $300B in Federal Workforce, Pay Cuts
Proposal to reduce the rate of return on the TSP's government securities fund also resurfaces.
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Clinton and Sanders Pledge To Protect Federal Employee Pay and Benefits
Union receives responses from Democratic candidates, but no Republicans, on range of issues.
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