The Office of Government Ethics has sent out a reminder that the deadline is May 15 for filing annual public financial disclosure reports, which are required of many senior career federal employees as well as political appointees.
Extensions of up to 90 days are allowed. Designated agency ethics officials are required to ensure that their agency”s certification process for each 2018 annual report is completed within 60 days of receipt, except in unusual circumstances in which acquiring additional information needed for certification takes longer than 60 day.
Those forms (OGE Form 278e), which disclose personal financial interests as well as those of their spouse and minor children, are publicly accessible from employing agencies—and from the OGE, for appointees. A larger number of federal employees, mainly in positions involving the exercise of discretion that could have an economic impact on non-federal entities, file confidential forms (OGE Form 450), which are held at employing agencies.
