Pay & Benefits

Catch-62

Some military veterans who went on to civilian careers in government are getting a nasty surprise when they turn age 62. Their pensions are being cut.

Pay & Benefits

Some workers still waiting for IT pay raise

Many federal computer specialists are still waiting to get a special pay raise intended to keep information technology employees working for the government.

Pay & Benefits

Guarding the G Fund

Don't worry: When the government taps the Thrift Savings Plan’s G Fund to avoid hitting the federal debt ceiling, your nest egg is protected.

Pay & Benefits

House panel pushes military-civilian pay parity

The House Budget Committee agreed Wednesday night to a resolution backing pay parity for military service members and civilian federal employees next year.

Pay & Benefits

Senate leader raps plan to tap retirement funds to ease debt crisis

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., Tuesday criticized a possible Bush administration move to tap federal employee retirement funds to avoid immediately raising the government's debt ceiling.

Pay & Benefits

Bush may tap retirement funds to avoid hitting debt ceiling

The Bush administration may borrow billions of dollars from federal employee retirement funds to temporarily eliminate the need for Congress to raise the debt ceiling.

Pay & Benefits

Law calls for 18.6 percent federal pay raise

Federal employees should get an average pay raise of 18.56 percent in 2003 under a 1990 law, a new Congressional Research Service report says.

Pay & Benefits

Keep on rolling

New rules will allow feds to roll over more money into their TSP accounts.

Defense

Aviation safety agency picks recruiting firm, sets screener pay

The Transportation Security Administration has picked a recruiting firm to hire more than 30,000 baggage screeners and issued a pay range for the new workers.

Pay & Benefits

Cutting workers’ comp

The Bush administration wants to cut millions of dollars in benefits to injured federal workers.