Pay & Benefits
USPS estimates 7,400 employees may take buyout offers
Thousands who signed up by the July 2 deadline still can change their minds.
Pay & Benefits
Retirement claims backlog slowly shrinks
OPM continues to steadily chip away at the pileup, but retirees are still frustrated.
Pay & Benefits
VA temporarily halts employee pay downgrades
Decision comes less than a month after protest.
Pay & Benefits
Agencies dish out more in student loan repayments
Report on 2010 spending finds the benefit helped with recruitment and retention.
Pay & Benefits
Union says USPS consolidation plan violates collective bargaining agreement
Converting rural postmasters to part-time positions raises 'serious questions,' APWU says.
Pay & Benefits
GSA offers select employees buyouts, early retirement
This is the second phase of the agency’s workforce reduction efforts.
Management
Watchdog dismisses TRICARE bid protest
Longtime contractor loses multibillion-dollar award to manage military health care.
Pay & Benefits
TSP funds post positive returns in June
Upward trend is due in part to European compromise.
Pay & Benefits
Congress approves partial retirement, spares fed pensions
Transportation deal drops proposed retirement contribution hike and high-five calculation.
Oversight
Analysis: Unfairly maligned solicitor general has last laugh on health care ruling
Obama called Donald Verrilli Jr. first to congratulate him on the victory.
Pay & Benefits
Need Money? Look to the TSP
Tips for getting the most out of your Thrift Savings Plan investments.
Pay & Benefits
White House confronts silence on fed pay raise
OMB objects to ‘a permanent pay freeze.’
Pay & Benefits
Supreme Court health care ruling changes little for feds
Added benefits in upheld law are already in effect for FEHBP enrollees.
Pay & Benefits
Feds off the hook in transportation, student loan deals
Conferees agree on partial retirement and chuck pension hike and high-five calculation.
Pay & Benefits
Maybe it is possible to have a demanding federal job and raise happy kids
Foreign Service officer offers a response to Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic cover story on work-life balance.
Pay & Benefits
Panel approves funds to avoid Weather Service furloughs
House subcommittee allows NOAA to reallocate money to cover budget shortfall at NWS.
Pay & Benefits
House Democrat takes up Senior Executive Service reform
Proposal by Rep. Jim Moran aims to fix pay compression, and is largely similar to a Senate bill.
Defense