Pay & Benefits

Taxpayer group urges Congress to cut pay raise

A taxpayer group last week asked members of Congress to deny themselves a pay raise next year. If Congress doesn’t get a raise, top government executives won’t get a raise either.

Pay & Benefits

Comp time, buyouts, pay hikes, pensions

Two bills advancing through Congress are chock-full of pay and benefits improvements for federal employees.

Pay & Benefits

Special health coverage extended to ‘underserved’ federal workers

Federal employees and retirees in 14 states qualify for special treatment under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, the Office of Personnel Management announced Wednesday.

Defense

Law protects service members’ finances

Pay & Benefits

Health plans to drop 135,000 federal workers and retirees

Thousands of federal workers and retirees must choose new health care coverage for next year because their health insurance companies are dropping them, the Office of Personnel Management announced Friday.

Pay & Benefits

Federal employees’ health premiums to rise up to 20 percent

Federal employees will pay up to 20 percent more for health coverage next year, the Office of Personnel Management announced Friday.

Pay & Benefits

Senate approves 4.6 percent pay raise

Federal workers would get a 4.6 percent average pay raise, under a bill approved by the Senate this week.