Pay & Benefits
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.
Pay & Benefits
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.
Pay & Benefits
OPM Approves Multiple Emergency Leave Transfer Programs
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Pay & Benefits
Your Guide to Pay and Benefits During a Shutdown
Although lawmakers are loath to let appropriations lapse ahead of an election, complications remain over permitting reform and other measures expected to be included in legislation to keep the government open.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers Are Urging OPM to Beef up Feds’ Fertility Benefits
Democrats in both chambers of Congress bemoaned the abridged—and often expensive—coverage of treatments such as in vitro fertilization in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
Workforce
A Federal Employee Group Has Renewed Calls for Agencies to Protect Workers Post-Roe
Among the requests are for administrative leave and travel reimbursement for federal workers who must travel across state lines to receive abortion services, as well as the ability to opt out of relocating to states that ban the procedure.
Pay & Benefits
GovExec Daily: Financial Tips From a TSP Millionaire
Financial professional and longtime fed Abraham Grungold joins the podcast to discuss the Thrift Savings Plan
Pay & Benefits
GovExec Daily: How to Plan For Your Retirement
GovExec Daily guests from the last year discuss the TSP, planning and preparation for your life after work.
Pay & Benefits
The House Has Cleared the Way for Biden’s 4.6% Pay Raise Plan
Lawmakers effectively endorsed the president’s pay raise proposal for federal workers Wednesday, although the Senate has yet to weigh in on the issue.
Pay & Benefits
Here’s How It Could Get Easier to Qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
The Biden administration earlier this month announced a wholesale reform of a web of federal loan forgiveness, including a number of measures to make it easier for federal workers to make use of the historically headache-inducing programs.
Pay & Benefits
It Could Soon Get Even Easier for Feds to Qualify for Student Loan Forgiveness
The Education Department has proposed a package of regulatory reforms aimed at making loan forgiveness programs more accessible.
Management
Social Security Benefits Play a Key Role in Preventing Older Americans from Lacking Enough Quality Food
Higher Social Security benefits can significantly reduce the odds of an older person’s being food insecure.
Workforce
GovExec Daily: The TSP Service Transition is Not Going Well
Erich Wagner joins the podcast to discuss his reporting on the Thrift Savings Plan’s new web-based services following the transition to a new recordkeeper.
Pay & Benefits
OPM: If You Need to Travel for Medical Care, You Can Use Sick Leave
The federal government’s HR agency confirmed that federal employees may use sick leave to travel to obtain reproductive health services, although the measure falls short of employee groups’ request for paid administrative leave after abortion ruling.
Pay & Benefits
Agencies Are Responding to the Supreme Court's Abortion Ruling. Here's How.
Hundreds of thousands of federal employees’ access to in-state reproductive health services disappeared Friday after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade.
Workforce
GovExec Daily: The Federal Government Role in Student Loan Servicing… And How It Can Be Fixed
The Student Borrower Protection Center's Ben Kaufman joins the podcast to discuss how the Department of Education is involved in education debt.
Workforce
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program Works… Sometimes
Readers share their experiences with the Education Department program that was recently overhauled. Challenges still remain, though the October changes did help many.
Workforce
GovExec Daily: Your Stories of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
Public servants talk to the podcast about how they have experienced the good and the bad of the Department of Education forgiveness program.
Pay & Benefits
A Request to Raise Gas Reimbursement Rates to Reflect Skyrocketing Prices, and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Management
USDA Launches Outreach Project for a Key Nutrition Program
The WIC program struggles with participation and retention rates, but a new push is afoot to identify eligible recipients.
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