Pay & Benefits

TSP Announces New Investment Chief

Previous head of investing, Ravindra Deo, was appointed executive director last year.

Pay & Benefits

81 Percent of Career Senior Executives Received Bonuses in Fiscal 2016

The average performance award neared $12,000, an increase of more than $3,000 from fiscal 2015.

Pay & Benefits

White House Budget Plan Praises the TSP, Then Cuts It

Plan to change G Fund returns would make fresh retirees invested in the L Income Fund run out of savings eight years earlier.

Pay & Benefits

Why Trump’s Performance Pay Fund Won’t Happen in 2019

Proposed $1 billion interagency award pool would only be big enough to give feds currently meeting or exceeding performance standards an average boost of $481 next year.

Oversight

Senate Panel to Vote on OPM Nominations After Long Wait

Hearing ends years of stalling over Obamacare rule process.

Pay & Benefits

Trump Formalizes 2019 Pay Freeze Proposal, Revives Benefits Cuts

The freeze is coupled with a $1 billion interagency fund to reward high performers as a first step in moving the civil service toward pay for performance.

Pay & Benefits

Budget Deal Includes No Changes to Federal Employee Compensation

Pay and benefits are not among the offsets to spending increases, quelling federal employee group fears for now.

Pay & Benefits

OPM Runs Into Annual Retirement Surge

Nearly 15,000 workers opted to leave federal service in January, in line with previous years.

Management

Lawmakers Make Progress on a Spending Deal

GOP lawmakers have proposed increasing spending caps by $80 billion for defense and $63 billion for non-defense annually.

Management

Senator Proposes Codifying DHS Cost Control Panel

Bill would enshrine agency’s Joint Requirements Council in statute.

Oversight

House Oversight Democrats Request Subpoena over HHS Gag Order

Agency has not complied with a nearly year-old information request, Cummings says.