Soaring health care costs at Defense portend future crisis

Lawmakers considering legislation to expand health care benefits for military reservists might want to first read a new report on the near-doubling of Defense heath care spending in recent years.

• Katherine McIntire Peters
• September 19, 2003

Retirement Protection

Lawmakers boost retirement benefits for injured feds.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• September 18, 2003

Thrift board considers adding new fund to savings plan

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• September 16, 2003

Federal employees face insurance premium hike in 2004

Health insurance premiums for federal employees will increase by an average of 10.6 percent next year, the Office of Personnel Management announced Tuesday.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• September 16, 2003

OPM mulls salary increase for federal firefighters

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• September 11, 2003

Radio Days

The largest federal employees union launches a radio advertising blitz against a proposal for a new Defense personnel system.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• September 11, 2003

House approves 4.1 civilian pay raise for 2004

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• September 10, 2003

Senate passes amendment blocking overtime pay change

• Emily Heil and April Fulton
• September 10, 2003

EEOC official says agency should review salaries, rent to save money

• Amelia Gruber
• September 8, 2003

House panel wary of plan for disabled vets' benefits

• Congress Daily
• September 5, 2003

Judge sends TSA bargaining rights case back to labor board

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• September 5, 2003

House votes to freeze locality pay areas until 2005

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• September 5, 2003

Politics of Pay

Lawmakers prepare to ignore President Bush's 2004 civil service pay raise proposal.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• September 4, 2003

Federal employees in Monterey, Calif. could lose locality pay

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• September 3, 2003

Senators brace for veterans health care battle

• Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
• August 29, 2003

Senator expands probe into TSP contract

• Matthew Weinstock
• August 29, 2003

Unions, House leader blast Bush's proposed 2 percent federal pay raise

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• August 28, 2003

Home game

OPM suggests that federal employees stay home during next week’s NFL kickoff celebration.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• August 28, 2003

President moves to limit 2004 federal pay raise

President Bush issued a plan Wednesday designed to limit the pay increase for white-collar federal employees to an average of 2 percent in 2004.

• Tom Shoop
• August 27, 2003

TSP chief considers new funds, loan limits

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• August 27, 2003