Pay & Benefits
Retirement Overpayments, TSP Hardship Withdrawals and More
A weekly round-up of pay and benefits news.
Pay & Benefits
Trump Administration Removes Guidance Supporting Transgender Feds
Top diversity official calls the move a "shock to many" that was "hard for me as well."
Pay & Benefits
Federal Employees Continue to Retire in Greater Numbers Than in Previous Years
The Office of Personnel Management has managed to keep the claims backlog in check, despite the increase. Separately, OPM clarifies hiring preference for Gold Star fathers.
Pay & Benefits
Last-Minute Shopping Tips for Open Season
Advice for procrastinators on evaluating your health insurance options.
Pay & Benefits
Budget Analysts: Bill Targeting Official Time Would Cost More than It Saves
Legislation from Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., seeks to cut the retirement benefits of some federal workers who use official time.
Pay & Benefits
New Locality Pay Areas Finalized, a Pay Raise Decision Delayed and More
A weekly round-up of pay and benefits news.
Management
Postal Task Force Recommends Eliminating Workers' Rights to Bargain Over Pay
The group’s long awaited report stops short of privatization calls, but would kneecap postal unions.
Defense
Analysis: Deployed Civilians Can’t Get Worker’s Comp — and That’s Bad News for a Military that Depends on Them
Thanks to a legal double standard, a civilian injured or sickened in a warzone has an impossible burden of proof.
Pay & Benefits
Most TSP Funds Rebounded in November
The Thrift Savings Plan’s portfolio of international stocks continued to stall last month.
Oversight
Ill Nuclear Workers’ Benefits Petitions Have to Be Reviewed Within 6 Months. Some Have Languished About a Decade.
A petition filed by a Los Alamos worker has been in limbo for 10 years. At the Savannah River Site, a petition has lingered for 11 years. At Sandia National Laboratories, workers have been waiting seven years for a final decision.
Pay & Benefits
The Secrets to a Financially Secure Retirement
Observations about those who have succeeded in the planning process.
Management
Report: Trump Draws Red Line Ahead of Shutdown Deadline
A demand for $5 billion in border wall funding could complicate efforts to provide a pay raise for federal workers in 2019.
Pay & Benefits
Federal Employees Have a Good Chance of Getting Christmas Eve Off This Year
Presidents have historically granted feds a vacation day on Dec. 24 to make a four-day weekend in years when Christmas falls on a Tuesday.
Pay & Benefits
Tips on Picking the Best Health Plan During Open Season
A nonprofit offers advice as Dec. 10 deadline for making FEHBP changes draws nearer.
Pay & Benefits
MSPB Likely to Remain Powerless as Senate Panel Fails to Advance Trump's Nominees
Federal employee appeals board has been without a quorum for nearly two years.
Pay & Benefits
TSP Unveils Plans for Expanding Withdrawal Options
Officials plan to implement the 2017 TSP Modernization Act by September.
Pay & Benefits
OPM to Rebid Identity Theft Protection Contract Affecting Millions of Hack Victims
The current contract, which cost the government $340 million over three years, is set to expire Dec. 31.
News
Trump’s Estimate of Joint Chiefs Chairman’s Pay Was Only Off By $4.8 Million
President says the country’s top military officer should get a raise.
Pay & Benefits