Pay & Benefits
USPS Offers Early Retirement to 26,000 Employees
Postal Service looks to shed staff after slowly adding workers for four years.
Oversight
No. 2 Senate Democrat Threatens Shutdown Over Immigration Issues
Durbin: White House proposal for $18 billion in wall funding is "outrageous."
Pay & Benefits
As New Deadline Looms, 25K Feds Await Court-Ordered Payout From Last Shutdown
Government, plaintiffs still sorting out exact amounts in liquidated damages.
Pay & Benefits
The Most Common Question About Federal Retirement
What was on the minds of readers more than anything else in 2017.
Pay & Benefits
OPM Extends Pay Freeze for Top Administration Officials
Officials now say the provision preventing pay raises for some Cabinet-level officials runs until the end of the current spending deal.
Pay & Benefits
VA Enables Vets to Discuss Marijuana Use With Doctors Without Losing Benefits
Department still prohibited from prescribing cannabis.
Pay & Benefits
TSP Shows Modest Gains, Blended Retirement Goes Live and More
A weekly round-up of pay and benefits news.
Pay & Benefits
The Year of the Civil Servant
Never before have the roles of government workers taken on such significance. But there could be consequences to using their power to undermine the administration.
Pay & Benefits
What the 2018 Pay Raise Means for You
OPM released its pay tables for employees across government shortly after President Trump released his executive order authorizing a 1.9 percent increase for civilian federal workers.
Pay & Benefits
Trump Issues 2018 Pay Raise Order
The White House stuck with the 1.9 percent increase originally proposed for civilian federal employees.
Pay & Benefits
Feds Avoid Shutdown, But Larger Threat Looms in the New Year
Cuts to federal employees' pay and benefits could serve to offset funding boosts in a spending deal.
Pay & Benefits
White House Calls for ‘Fundamental Reform’ to Feds’ Pay, Delays New 2018 Localities
President Trump still must issue the final order authorizing a 2018 pay increase before the end of the year.
Pay & Benefits
Developing a TSP Withdrawal Plan
Tips on crafting a strategy for tapping into your TSP funds in retirement.
Pay & Benefits
Trump Names Two Federal Pay Raise Advisers
After nearly a year of inaction, White House begins reconstitution of the Federal Salary Council.
Pay & Benefits
Flipping the Switch on Blended Retirement, Your Benefits During a Shutdown and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Pay & Benefits
Oversight Democrat Asks White House to Release Plans for 'Massive' Agency Downsizing
To date, the reorganizations have received "virtually no oversight by Congress," Cummings says.
Pay & Benefits
Analysis: What Does a Government Shutdown Mean for the Defense Department?
Four years ago, this staffer for the defense policy undersecretary helped the Pentagon figure out the impacts of a shutdown. Hint: it wasn’t pretty.
Oversight
Congress on Collision Course Ahead of Shutdown Deadline
"Puntagon" bill to fund defense for a full year but non-defense for one month is a nonstarter, Democrats say.
Pay & Benefits
Trump Administration Seeks Outside Help to Hire 26,000 New Immigration Enforcement Personnel
CBP just awarded a separate $300 million contract for Border Patrol hiring assistance.
Pay & Benefits