Pay & Benefits

OPM picks long-term care contractor

The Office of Personnel Management on Tuesday announced the contractor that will run the government’s long-term care insurance program for federal workers, military personnel and retirees.

Pay & Benefits

Postal workers get 4.4 percent raise

Management

FAA withholds bonuses for top executives

Citing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Federal Aviation Administration will not award performance bonuses to its top executives this year, Jane Garvey, FAA administrator said Thursday.

Pay & Benefits

TSP tinkering

The latest Thrift Savings Plan news.

Pay & Benefits

Bush officials say no to five new locality pay areas

Federal employees in five cities won’t be getting extra pay boosts in January, the Bush administration has decided.

Pay & Benefits

Postal Service inflated incentives for senior managers

For the past several years, Postal Service managers have been rewarded by a benefits system that inflated revenues and thus boosted their year-end incentives, according to a new report by the agency’s inspector general.

Pay & Benefits

Postal Service execs get SES privileges

Pay & Benefits

Bush gives feds the day off on Christmas Eve

Federal employees don’t have to come to work on Dec. 24, President Bush announced today.

Pay & Benefits

Reminders and check-ins

Updates on the TSP, health insurance and other pay and benefits news.

Pay & Benefits

Bill would halt supervisor cuts at FAA

Pay & Benefits

Court rejects TSP board’s $350 million lawsuit

The board that runs the federal Thrift Savings Plan cannot sue a contractor over a failed computer system modernization, a federal judge has ruled. The board is appealing the ruling.

Pay & Benefits

Bill pushes loans, tuition reimbursement for national security needs

Just as heavy federal investment in science and math education helped win the Cold War, some lawmakers want a similar education investment to help America win the war against terrorism.