Pay & Benefits
House members to push for 4.1 percent civilian pay raise
Civilian federal employees should get the same pay raise in 2003 as military service members, a key House Appropriations Committee member said Monday.
Pay & Benefits
Bush proposes 2.6 percent pay raise for 2003
President Bush on Monday proposed a 2.6 percent average pay raise for federal employees in 2003.
News
Federal non-defense workforce to increase by 8 percent
After a decade of downsizing, the federal government will boost its non-defense workforce by 8 percent over the next two years, adding more than 85,000 workers to civilian agencies’ rolls.
Pay & Benefits
Federal retirements fall short of projections
Almost 20 percent fewer federal employees retired in fiscal 2001 than government officials had predicted, Office of Personnel Management statistics show.
Pay & Benefits
Long-term relationship
A statistical review of the Thrift Savings Plan, which most federal employees are sticking with through the current stock market woes.
News
New mileage reimbursement rate takes effect
Starting Jan. 21, federal travelers who drive their own cars on government business can claim 36.5 cents per mile for reimbursement
Pay & Benefits
Not-so-special pay
Federal IT workers learned this month that special salary rates become less and less special each year.
Pay & Benefits
Try, try again
Several pay and benefits proposals that failed to pass in Congress last year are likely to be pushed again this year.
Pay & Benefits
Legislative winners
As is true in all years, most federal pay and benefits proposals on Capitol Hill failed to make the leap into law in 2001. But some did.
Defense
Civilian employees eligible for ‘hostile fire’ pay
Federal employees who were at the Pentagon and World Trade Center complex during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are eligible for a one-time payment of $150, under a provision approved by Congress last week.
Pay & Benefits
OPM picks long-term care contractor
The Office of Personnel Management on Tuesday announced the contractor that will run the government’s long-term care insurance program for federal workers, military personnel and retirees.
Pay & Benefits
Bush officials say no to five new locality pay areas
Federal employees in five cities won’t be getting extra pay boosts in January, the Bush administration has decided.
Pay & Benefits
Reminders and check-ins
Updates on the TSP, health insurance and other pay and benefits news.
Pay & Benefits
Bush gives feds the day off on Christmas Eve
Federal employees don’t have to come to work on Dec. 24, President Bush announced today.
Pay & Benefits
Court rejects TSP board’s $350 million lawsuit
The board that runs the federal Thrift Savings Plan cannot sue a contractor over a failed computer system modernization, a federal judge has ruled. The board is appealing the ruling.
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