Pay & Benefits
Borrowing From Yourself
You can get a low-interest loan from your Thrift Savings Plan account, but you might pay the price in retirement savings.
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Bargaining for Pay
Will the new Defense and Homeland Security personnel systems open salaries to negotiation?
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Enabled
A government program provides free technology to help federal workers overcome physical limitations.
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A Year in the Life-Cycle Funds
Option introduced last summer outperforms the most popular basic funds, and keeps employees from chasing returns.
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A Dip in the Pay Pool
A look at how the Defense Department’s new system for setting pay raises will work.
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Rules of Unpaid Leave
Federal employees can continue to receive some benefits even without a paycheck.
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Reverse Pay Parity
Military advocates could find themselves in the unusual position of having to argue that soldiers deserve as high a raise as civilian federal employees.
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Pandemic Preparations
OPM reminds agencies of personnel flexibilities available to them if an outbreak hits.
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Do It Yourself
Some federal employees have taken it upon themselves to jump-start inventive new benefits.
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Coveted Benefits
Congressional candidates campaign to make the health benefits enjoyed by federal employees available to the public.
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Scarce Payback
Federal employee student loan repayments are growing, but remain a relatively rare benefit.
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Pay Gap: The Rebuttal
Federal employees and their advocates respond to claim that civil servants are overcompensated.
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Pay Gap: A Different Take
A libertarian think tank argues that federal pay is actually higher than private sector.
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Taxing Duty
Legislation would grant civilian employees in war zones the tax-free status of their military counterparts.
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To Market, to Market
How will market-sensitive locality payments work under the new personnel systems?
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Parenting Time
Lawmakers are renewing efforts to grant federal employees six weeks of paid parental leave.
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House panel backs 2.7 percent military pay raise
Action likely to set off a battle to provide a similar increase for civilian federal employees; President Bush has proposed 2.2 percent.
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Now or Later
Adding a Roth 401(k) option to the Thrift Savings Plan would enable participants to pay taxes upfront, but this choice comes at a cost.
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