Pay & Benefits
Union opposes pension contribution proposal
Group takes particular issue with provision requiring employees of nontaxpayer funded Tennessee Valley Authority to pay into retirement plans.
Pay & Benefits
Wellness and disease prevention appear higher on FEHBP radar
Keeping enrollees healthy will help hold down costs, observers say.
Pay & Benefits
Long-Term Open Season
A look at how many feds have signed up for long-term care insurance during this year’s open season -- and why they did.
Pay & Benefits
Super Secretive
What’s the latest on deficit reduction proposals related to federal pay and benefits? You’d never guess from watching the public super committee hearings.
Pay & Benefits
TSP contribution cap to increase in 2012
Employees will be able to add up to $17,000 to their retirement plans next year.
Defense
Defense officials downplay panel’s role in revamping military retirement
Pentagon is reviewing its compensation structure for service members, including changes to pension benefits.
Defense
Obama to announce plan to curb veteran unemployment
Announcement comes as part of a group of executive orders trying to jolt the economy.
Defense
Defense urged to create central domestic violence database
Watchdog group criticizes the Pentagon's slow progress on tracking and targeting abuse.
Defense
Senate approves COLA hike for disabled vets
Bill provides 3.6 percent increase and also boosts benefits to surviving spouses and children.
Pay & Benefits
GAO weighs in on Postal Service’s financial health
Report recommends eliminating or revising requirement for prefunding retiree health benefits, among other options.
Pay & Benefits
FEHBP pharmacy changes stir up controversy
Proposal to bring all drug benefit negotiations in-house goes to super committee but draws some opposition.
Pay & Benefits
Targeting Early Retirement
A look at how and why the federal system permits some employees to leave early.
Pay & Benefits
Reviewing the 3Rs
OPM wants to know how much agencies spent on recruitment, retention and relocation incentives during the past two years.
Pay & Benefits
New USAJobs site to get more servers, OPM chief tells labor-management meeting
The personnel office also responds to performance management recommendations from September.
Oversight
Individual contractors sue over right to make campaign gifts
Complaint criticizes 1972 election law for giving federal employees and corporations a privilege denied to individual awardees.
Pay & Benefits
Federal retirees will see COLA boost in 2012
CSRS retirees receive a 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment increase as food and gas prices rise, while FERS retirees get a 2.6 percent bump.
Oversight
Justice plans to cut four antitrust division field offices, employee relocation time
Measures are part of plan to reduce spending by $130 million.
Pay & Benefits
Agriculture offers another round of buyouts
Nearly 2,000 Rural Development employees will have the option of leaving, for payments of $25,000.
Oversight
Super committee gets mixed messages on USPS
Recommendations range from “please save” the Postal Service to “stay out.”
Oversight