Pay & Benefits
Thrifty and Nifty
Check in on TSP returns, new contribution limits and some Web sites that aim to help you earn more.
Pay & Benefits
Bidding opens on 2008 pay raise at 3 percent
Even before the 2007 raise is decided, Labor Department figures provide basis to predict 2008 figure.
Pay & Benefits
In The E-Mailbag
Answers to readers’ questions on a range of retirement-related issues.
Defense
Three judges set to hear Defense personnel reform appeal
Pentagon releases results of survey indicating first entrants to new system are satisfied; unions dismiss findings.
Pay & Benefits
Prescription drug fraud settlement nets $155 million
Provider used by insurers in federal employee health programs agrees to settlement, but denies taking kickbacks, deleting prescriptions.
Defense
Details emerge on Pentagon performance management system
Rating scales, types of goals, weighting scheme all included in recently released information.
Pay & Benefits
Tenure no longer a factor in senior execs’ annual leave
As part of effort to recruit mid-career employees, every member of the SES gets 26 days off a year.
Management
Personnel agency offers advice on developing better managers
Survey revealing federal employees’ poor view of supervisors prompts new guidelines.
Pay & Benefits
Counting COLAs
A look at how the 2007 retiree cost-of-living allowances announced this week will play out in the real world.
Management
Intelligence agencies to follow Defense in personnel reform
Employees at 16 agencies will work under first cross-agency system outside General Schedule.
Pay & Benefits
Smart Giving
A new tool offers federal employees detailed financial information about Combined Federal Campaign charities.
Pay & Benefits
President honors elite federal executives
Highest award comes with cash bonus of more than $35,000.
Pay & Benefits
CSRS retirees to get 3.3 percent pension bump
Retirees in the newer FERS system will receive a 2.3 percent adjustment next year.
Defense
Original judge in DHS labor case to keep jurisdiction
Agency officials required to give court a status report on new labor system in nine months.
Pay & Benefits
Trial that could out feds alleged to have bogus degrees delayed
Proceedings will only begin next October, because of the volume of documents involved.
Pay & Benefits
TSP board mulls legislative agenda
Board may seek changes in five areas, including automatic enrollment, loan restrictions and post-tax investment options.
Pay & Benefits
Health Insurance Choices, Part Three
The last in a three-part series on open season for the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program focuses on health maintenance organizations.
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