Pay & Benefits

Good to be golden

For the over-50 set, more retirement savings help may be on the way.

Pay & Benefits

Patent workers to get 10 percent pay raise

Thousands of Patent and Trademark Office employees will get pay raises of about 9.8 percent this weekend, the head of one of the agency’s labor unions said Thursday.

Pay & Benefits

TSP limits lifted

The annual limit on Thrift Savings Plan contributions will rise to $15,000 by 2006.

Defense

Task force charged with overhauling veterans health care

President Bush observed Memorial Day by creating a new task force to address the quality of health care service for veterans.

Pay & Benefits

House civil service panel chairman to resign

Rep. Joe Scarborough, R-Fla., who as chairman of a key civil service subcommittee backed pay and benefits reform issues, has announced he will give up his seat Sept. 6.

Pay & Benefits

Standing pat on pay

The Bush administration is standing by its 3.6 percent average pay raise for federal workers in 2002.

Pay & Benefits

Bill would help woo former employees back to government

Former federal employees may soon have an incentive to return to the federal workplace, thanks to a bill introduced Tuesday by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va.

Pay & Benefits

OMB rejects FAA pay raise agreement

Pay & Benefits

Upping the SES pay cap

A bill to increase SES pay hits the House. Plus: jumping in the new S and I funds and adjusting federal pensions.