Pay & Benefits
House Panel Approves 3.1% Pay Raise for Feds in 2020
The bill advanced by the House Appropriations Committee to the House floor Tuesday also would increase funding for a number of civilian agencies.
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VA Faces Multi-Faceted Challenges to Its Attempts at Firing and Accountability Reform
The department can no longer publicly post its disciplinary data.
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Disputes Over Pay, Layoffs Create Impasse Between USPS and 200K Employees
Union and agency will head to interest arbitration.
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Buy This and Hope You Don’t Get Your Money’s Worth
The ins and outs of life insurance.
Workforce
Retirement Claims Backlog Inches Down in May
The pile of pending claims shrunk by nearly 600 last month and is slightly smaller than it was at the same time last year.
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TSP Seeks Fund Managers, Prepares New Withdrawal Options
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
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Presidential Hopeful Aims to Give Feds Faster Access to Student Loan Forgiveness
Federal employees would no longer have to wait until they had served 10 years.
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House Panel Advances Spending Bill With 3.1% Pay Raise for Feds
The measure also would block the Trump administration’s plan to merge the Office of Personnel Management with the General Services Administration.
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TSP Funds End May Mostly in the Red
Only two funds within the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings program posted gains last month.
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House Appropriators Propose 3.1% Civilian Pay Raise for 2020, Reject OPM-GSA Merger
Initial version of the general government spending bill ignores President Trump’s request for a pay freeze.
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What You Need to Know About TSP's New Withdrawal Options
Changes coming in mid-September will allow participants more flexibility in how they take money out of their retirement savings accounts.
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Separating Fact and Opinion
It can be difficult to tell the two apart in the federal retirement world.
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U.S. Postal Employees’ Retirement Assets Are Invested More Cautiously Than Those of Their Foreign Counterparts
Legally mandated strategy is not risky, but also does not produce high returns that might help reduce a gap in pension assets and liabilities, report notes.
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Early Retirement, Severance Options Unclear for Forest Service Workers Facing Layoffs
The decision to eliminate 1,100 Forest Service jobs by Sept. 30 leaves a lot of unanswered questions for employees.
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TSA Announces Pass-Fail Performance Management System for Screeners
Officials say the new process will cut down on paperwork and continue to reward strong performers.
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TSP to Simplify 'Spillover' Contributions, and Officials Oppose Bill Restricting Investments
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
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What If New Employees Were Offered a Bunch of New Benefits?
But with a catch: They’d have to give up some of the current ones.
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Changes to TSP Withdrawal Rules on Track for September, OPM Highlights Reskilling Tools and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
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House Democrats Move to Block Agency Relocations, Buyouts
Lawmakers put language in appropriations bills to prevent the Trump administration from advancing key initiatives.
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