Pay & Benefits

A Closer Look at 2023 Federal Employee Health Benefits Premiums

Wondering how the increase might impact your FEHB plan choice? We’ll walk you through it.

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It's Time to Prepare for Open Season 

It’s in your interest to conduct an annual insurance checkup—especially this year.

Pay & Benefits

GovExec Daily: Inflation, Social Security and the COLA

The Alliance for Retired Americans' Richard Fiesta joins the podcast to discuss inflation and the recent cost of living adjustment for retirees.

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Big COLA Boost for Retirees

High inflation at least means a boost in federal retirement benefits.

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Federal Retirees Are Set to Receive the Highest COLA in Decades, But Some Will Get Less Than Others

Civil Service Retirement System enrollees will see an 8.7% increase in their defined benefit pension payments in 2023, while participants in the Federal Employees Retirement System will only receive a 7.7% increase.

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Money May Not Be Federal Workers' Main Motive For Quitting

The reasons driving federal employees to leave government service, and other pay and benefits news.

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OPM Has Authorized Another Round of Paid Leave For Feds to Get COVID-19 Boosters

As part of the Biden administration’s efforts to encourage Americans to receive the latest COVID-19 booster, federal workers will get up to four hours of paid leave for the shot.

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Union Chief Slams ‘Remarkably High’ Increase in Health Care Premiums

AFGE President Everett Kelly forecasts higher premiums may worsen the “widespread staffing crises.”

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More than 100 Lawmakers Urge the Biden Administration To Extend Public Service Loan Forgiveness Waivers

Although the Education Department has proposed regulations to make permanent many provisions of a temporary waiver program aimed at making the popular program easier to navigate, those rules won’t take effect until next year.

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TSP Funds Continue To Fall in September

Nearly all of the funds in the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings plan remained in negative territory last month.

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Federal Employees Will Pay 8.7% More Toward Health Care Premiums Next Year

The Office of Personnel Management said increased use of health care services as the COVID-19 pandemic has waned has led to the sharpest uptick in health insurance premiums in more than a decade.

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A Federal Judge Will Allow a Federal Worker to Pursue Overtime Backpay From Training

A lawsuit challenges regulations from the Office of Personnel Management that state that federal employees cannot receive overtime pay in connection with entry-level job training.

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Best Dates to Retire 2023

The annual guide to the optimum days to plan to move on.

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The Government’s Pay System Needs to Be Fixed. The Federal Salary Council Can (and Should) Lead the Charge.

The former chair of the Federal Salary Council, on behalf of his fellow appointees from the previous administration, discusses why the council should take up unfinished business left over from that administration.

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GovExec Daily: Preparing to 'Win' Retirement

Author Joe Casey joins the podcast to discuss his book on how to have a fruitful transition into retirement.