Pay & Benefits
Huge round of arrests for $450 million in Medicare fraud
Attorney General Eric Holder will provide details of the arrests at a press conference.
Tech
Beleaguered GSA praised for telework program
Agency honored, along with USDA and Homeland Security, for innovations in promoting the work arrangement.
Tech
Telework is increasingly satisfying and less problematic, study finds
Management is slower to take to this workplace innovation.
Pay & Benefits
Bill would boost TSP contribution rates
Draft legislation would link automatic increases and automatic enrollment in the Thrift Savings Plan.
Pay & Benefits
TSP funds finish April with mixed results
All the retirement options have positive gains so far in 2012.
Pay & Benefits
Senators plead for grace period on shuttering post offices
Bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to delay closures scheduled to begin May 15 until Congress enacts reform.
Pay & Benefits
More than 1,000 IRS employees agreed to buyouts in fiscal 2011
Figure doesn’t include results of a second round of offers in January.
Pay & Benefits
Watchdog documents ongoing workers’ compensation struggles
Management and oversight deficiencies lead to avoidable costs, GAO notes.
Pay & Benefits
Feds give TSP thumbs up
Rollout of Roth option could frustrate enrollees, board officials acknowledge.
Management
USPS says Senate-passed postal reform effort doesn’t go far enough
Agency will be back before Congress in a few years, postmaster general says.
Pay & Benefits
Fed pension hike advances in House
Committee backs bill requiring feds to pay 5 percent more toward their retirement.
Pay & Benefits
Diplomats get a break on pet travel costs
Airline relents and will waive some fees for Foreign Service employees shipping their pets overseas.
Pay & Benefits
One Reason to Save Your Vacation Time
Legislation lets feds invest unused leave in their Thrift Savings Plan accounts.
Management
Senate passes U.S. Postal Service overhaul
Legislation would let USPS offer buyouts and early outs to 100,000 employees.
Management
Interior: No plans to implement 7 percent staff reduction
Memo to OMB was purely hypothetical scenario, spokesman said.
Pay & Benefits
Romney rips 'unfairness' of federal pay, benefits
As GOP front-runner closes in on nomination, he says government workers should not make more than average Americans.
Pay & Benefits
Forced retirement for Postal Service workers voted down in Senate
Measure that would rid bill of reductions in workers’ comp fails; overall vote to come.
Pay & Benefits
Defense overtime pay cap waived again
Certain civilian Pentagon employees can receive basic and premium pay up to $230,700 for the year.
Pay & Benefits