Pay & Benefits
Broadcasting Board of Governors offers buyouts, early outs
Employees of Voice of America and other divisions are eligible.
Defense
Military personnel have until Sunday to apply for special pay
Members whose service was extended involuntarily after the 9/11 terrorist attacks are eligible for benefit.
Pay & Benefits
Army encourages early retirement for some soldiers
Service is using incentive to help reduce the force by thousands over the next few years.
Pay & Benefits
Poll: How healthy is your health insurance plan?
Open season is right around the corner, and we want to know what you think of FEHBP.
Pay & Benefits
Thousands of Defense civilians might have to repay housing allowances
Department’s mistake could affect up to 2,000 employees in Europe.
Pay & Benefits
Federal retirees will get 1.7 percent COLA next year
Low inflation in 2012 results in smaller boost.
Pay & Benefits
Government to release cost-of-living adjustment Tuesday
Retirees are expected to receive a much smaller COLA increase for 2013.
Pay & Benefits
Government Employees: Working Hard, or Hardly Working?
Most people think public servants work less, but earn more than private sector employees, according to survey.
Pay & Benefits
Retirement claims surge in September
OPM chips away at backlog, despite receiving thousands more applications than expected.
Defense
Former career diplomat to head State investigation into Libya attack
Thomas Pickering will chair panel looking into deaths of U.S. embassy personnel.
Oversight
Stopgap spending measure provides clarity to sequester threat
If sequestration occurs in January, it will be based on funding levels in current CR.
Pay & Benefits
FEHBP Enrollees: The Check Is Not in the Mail
OPM will use any rebates from health insurance carriers to adjust 2014 premium rates.
Management
Romney slams Obama’s approach as 'trickle-down government'
Candidates spar over role of government but don’t give specific federal workforce proposals much air time.
Pay & Benefits
Military retirees see TRICARE fee hike
Many enrollees will pay 17 percent more in annual fees in fiscal 2013.
Pay & Benefits
Obama makes pay freeze extension official
President signs into law six-month continuing resolution to avoid government shutdown.
Oversight
President signs STOCK Act delay for senior execs
Law postpones until Dec. 8 the financial online posting requirement for thousands of career feds.
Management
OPM courts interns, recent grads
Agency is ramping up its efforts this fall to attract new hires to government.
Pay & Benefits
Sequestration Can’t Touch Certain Pay and Benefits
An optimist’s look at what is protected from those dreaded governmentwide spending cuts.
Pay & Benefits
Poll: Are you ready for sequestration?
Tell us how well-prepared (or not) your agency is for the government’s fiscal Armageddon.
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