Pay & Benefits

Open Season Time

Employees have about a month to opt into health insurance and flexible spending plans.

Pay & Benefits

Liable to be Liable

When it’s time to implement pay-for-performance, managers might want extra protection.

Pay & Benefits

Costly Confusion

Technical glitches are continuing to leave some feds stuck in the wrong retirement system.

Pay & Benefits

Thrift Inspection

It’s time to check up on the health of the Thrift Savings Plan.

Pay & Benefits

Figuring Your Locality Pay

The lowdown on what the Federal Salary Council's 2006 locality pay recommendations mean for you.

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Payband Aid

A mainstay of the personnel reform movement is a mystery to many.

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Safety Deposit

You don’t automatically get annuity credit for military service when you retire.

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Playing Catch-up

Catch-up contributions give the 50-and-over crowd a backdoor to the TSP.

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Travel Math

Rules for getting compensatory time off for travel are fussy and complex.

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Life and Death Planning

Employees should get paperwork and information ready so survivors can claim their benefits when they die.

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Reaping REITs' Rewards

Beyond the political disagreement, how would a REIT option affect TSP portfolios?

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The Game of Life(cycle)

Who is and who isn’t investing in the TSP’s new life-cycle funds?

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Thinking Long-Term

Insurance that covers nursing homes and assisted living costs isn’t fun to think about, but it may be a smart move

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Life-Cycle Variety

The popular new “life-cycle” funds have far lower administrative costs, but are missing some of the innovations of certain private plans.

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Performance Pay: A History

Pay for performance in government isn’t exactly a new concept.

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All About FSAs

Money saved for braces, laser eye surgery and even summer camp can be tax-free.

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Eye of the Storm

Agencies can give volunteering employees excused absences, OPM says.

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Relocation board’s charter extended through end of 2005

The Governmentwide Relocation Advisory Board’s charter given some wiggle room in case it stumbles in meeting September reporting deadline.

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Eyes on the Prize

The pay raise for 2006 is right on schedule, for the moment.

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Red Pen Scare

The countdown to implementation of the Homeland Security Department’s labor relations policies is raising fears in some employees.