Pay & Benefits

Pressure Builds for Crackdown on Paying Employees Not to Work

EPA spent more than $1 million on administrative leave for just eight employees, watchdog finds.

Pay & Benefits

We Need to Talk About Your Retirement

The importance of counseling in the planning process.

Pay & Benefits

Petition for an Extra Day Off at Christmas Falls Just Short of Demanding a Response

Movement comes within a few thousand signatures of the 100,000 needed to guarantee a reply from the White House.

Oversight

Chaffetz Will Replace Issa as House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman

Media-savvy Republican has shepherded legislation affecting federal employees’ pay and benefits.

Pay & Benefits

TSP Board Green Lights More Homework on Mutual Fund Option

Agency staff will craft an implementation plan in 2015 for rolling out the potential new offering for feds.

Pay & Benefits

Misbehaving VA Execs Could Lose Some of Their Pension Benefits

Bill would give the secretary power to strip a portion of an employee’s retirement benefits on account of wrongdoing or poor performance.

Pay & Benefits

The $1,258 Question

The Medicare Part B conundrum for those turning 65.

Pay & Benefits

TSP Moves Closer to Offering Mutual Fund Option

Board still has more homework to do on costs and implementation, but so far supports the additional investment flexibility for feds.

Oversight

Sen. Johnson Speaks on Aligning Public-Private Sector Pay, Keeping Hearings Polite

Likely Homeland Security panel priorities also include securing border, cyber safety, regulatory rollback.

Pay & Benefits

Phased Retirement Watch: Will Your Agency Offer It?

We’re tracking agencies that have weighed in on phased retirement, and will update our list whenever we have news.

Pay & Benefits

A Little More Cash During Open Season

Five ideas for saving yourself some benefits bucks.

Pay & Benefits

Employees Can Start Applying For Phased Retirement Thursday – In Theory

Despite the benefit's popularity among eligible feds, most agencies probably aren’t ready to offer it yet.

Defense

Did a SEAL Team Six Member Violate the Espionage Act?

At the top, federal employees leak with impunity. At the bottom, they're at the mercy of an opaque apparatus that masquerades as justice.