Oversight
Postal Service seeks a lifeline from Congress
The financially ailing USPS will reach its statutory borrowing limit by Sept. 30, unless lawmakers come to the rescue.
Oversight
Senate votes to end FAA's partial shutdown
Chamber extends funding until Sept. 16, but lawmakers have made little progress on resolving underlying differences.
Defense
Obama steps up veterans hiring efforts
Task force headed by the Defense and Veterans' Affairs departments will develop reforms to ensure veterans will emerge from service better prepared for a career.
Oversight
Deal ending FAA standoff papers over deeper wounds
The underlying disagreements that resulted in a partial shutdown remain unresolved.
Pay & Benefits
Social Security Trade-Offs
Considerations for married couples in applying for benefits.
Pay & Benefits
OPM releases draft rules on new federal internship program
Initiative will have three tracks for current students, recent graduates and presidential management fellows.
Pay & Benefits
Senators seek three-year pay freeze extension, workforce cuts
Proposal targets feds just after debt deal temporarily spares government jobs and compensation.
Defense
Under debt deal, military pay, veterans programs in play for cuts
Officers and veterans groups are concerned nothing -- including health care and education benefits -- will be immune from the belt tightening.
Pay & Benefits
Officials press Congress on FAA funding
Partial shutdown has left some employees without a paycheck, including inspectors still on the job.
Oversight
FAA furloughs unprecedented, officials say
As shutdown enters its second week, thousands of agency employees remain off the job.
Pay & Benefits
Early Outs
Addressing questions about early retirement offers -- and TSP protections.
Oversight
DHS hires new human capital chief
Veteran federal HR executive Catherine Emerson will fill the position, which is being converted from political to career.
Pay & Benefits
Unions rally to protest debt ceiling impasse, furloughs
Advocates for government workers take to Capitol Hill to decry congressional stalemate.
Pay & Benefits
Pension Tension
This time, a lawmaker targets his colleagues instead of the federal workforce.
Pay & Benefits
TSP contributions will decline if debt deal cuts fed benefits, Congress told
The pay freeze and a proposed hike in pension contributions would likely leave federal employees with less to invest in Thrift Savings Plan.
Pay & Benefits
Workers’ comp reform bill would hurt injured feds, witnesses say
Panelists say legislation would dock employees’ benefits.
Oversight
Federal pay and benefits spared -- for now
The debt strategies unveiled Monday do not contain specific provisions that would affect employees’ salaries or pensions.
Pay & Benefits