Defense

Defense moves to integrate pay systems

An initiative to integrate 79 military pay and personnel systems into one system moved forward Monday when Pentagon officials announced that Northrop Grumman would take the project into its implementation phase.

Pay & Benefits

Preemptive Strike

Veterans’ advocates try to squash a proposal that would severely limit vets’ benefits.

Pay & Benefits

Hurricane victims excused from work with pay

Defense

Soaring health care costs at Defense portend future crisis

Lawmakers considering legislation to expand health care benefits for military reservists might want to first read a new report on the near-doubling of Defense heath care spending in recent years.

Pay & Benefits

Retirement Protection

Lawmakers boost retirement benefits for injured feds.

Pay & Benefits

Federal employees face insurance premium hike in 2004

Health insurance premiums for federal employees will increase by an average of 10.6 percent next year, the Office of Personnel Management announced Tuesday.

Pay & Benefits

Radio Days

The largest federal employees union launches a radio advertising blitz against a proposal for a new Defense personnel system.

Pay & Benefits

Senate passes amendment blocking overtime pay change