Pay & Benefits
Retirement Made EZ
A look at how the self-serve electronic benefits resource will work.
Pay & Benefits
Union opposes nomination of Treasury official to IRS board
President Bush nominates Kenneth Carfine, a department assistant secretary, to fill the employee representative seat on oversight group.
Pay & Benefits
Fair Trade
Members of the Thrift Savings Plan advisory council comment on new restrictions to interfund transfers.
Pay & Benefits
GAO to seek input from employees on changes to new pay system
Acting comptroller general says feedback is necessary to making the system "transparent and inclusive."
Pay & Benefits
OPM adds substance abuse services to federal health plan
Most employees’ insurance will cover a medical procedure that screens for alcohol and drug abuse.
Pay & Benefits
Panel approves bill to restore back raises to GAO employees
Legislation would offer lump sum to analysts who were denied salary increases under new pay system.
Pay & Benefits
OPM touts success of new electronic retirement system
Under RetireEZ, 34 retirees received an accurate annuity payment within 30 days, agency says.
News And Analysis
Pay Potential
Performance-based raises could stifle employees more than motivate them.
Pay & Benefits
TSP stock funds post losses in March
Less-risky funds show minimal gains for the month.
Pay & Benefits
GAO questions progress on retirement claims system
Watchdog agency says OPM report on new self-service benefits system is incomplete.
Pay & Benefits
National Nuclear Security Administration to launch pay for performance
Five-year pilot project will put nearly 2,000 workers into broad paybands.
Pay & Benefits
Healthy Choice?
A study shows that high-deductible health plans have done little to crack down on rising costs.
Defense
TSA makes more modifications to screener pay system
Administrator says new pay-for-performance system has become “far too complicated.”
Pay & Benefits
Study: agencies should capitalize on strengths to attract mid-level hires
New employees in upper ranks view their agencies more favorably than their previous employers.
Pay & Benefits
Generations are in sync on quality of work life, says panel
Leadership and pay flexibility are linchpins to hiring and keeping a young, diverse workforce.
Pay & Benefits
OPM seeks enhanced hearing benefits in federal health plan
Move would follow last year’s move by most FEHBP carriers to provide hearing benefits to children up to age 22.
Tech
Younger employees present challenge to information security, study shows
New generation of workers has more lax attitudes about technology than their older colleagues.
Pay & Benefits
TSP trading activity down, officials say
Proposed plan to limit interfund transfers is showing results.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers seek remedy for GAO pay reform
Legislation would restore raises to hundreds of agency employees.
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