House Backs VA Power to Rescind Awards
A bill (HR-280) passed by the House would allow the VA to recoup all or part of employee awardsalready paid …More
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs panel has advanced a bill (S-579) to strengthen agency inspectors general by broadening …More
IGs Want Broader Authorities
The bill was introduced following calls by agency IGs for additional authorities at hearings in both the House and Senate …More
MSPB Finalizes Research Agenda
MSPB, an agency best known for deciding appeals of disciplinary cases and certain other personnel matters, has set an agenda …More
GAO Calls for Reforms of FBI Whistleblower Policies
Because of the nature of the agency’s work, FBI employees are excluded from many of the normal whistleblower protections for …More
GSA Reorganizes Property Policies
GSA has issued proposed rules to move rules regarding the supply and procurement of government personal property management from the …More
Compliance Rate with GAO Recommendations Slips
The rate at which agencies comply with GAO recommendations has slipped a bit from its peak year of 2001, according …More
SSA Urged to Better Manage Payee Database
SSA is making benefit payments to some persons representing beneficiaries even though those representatives may have been terminated or were …More
Postal Customers Flexible on Service, Up to a Point
Postal customers are flexible regarding the levels of service they will accept, although only within limits, the Postal IG has …More
Detecting Identity Theft a Major Challenge for IRS
The IRS estimates that it prevented 81 percent of attempted refund fraud based on identity theft in 2013 but $5.8 …More
GSA Control Over Own Vehicles Assessed
GSA, which sets government-wide policies for agencies to control their vehicle fleets, needs to improve how it applies those standards …More
OPM Seeks Data on Student Loan Reimbursements
OPM has told agencies to send information on their fiscal 2014 use of student loan reimbursements as a recruiting and …More
Report Criticizes VA Office Record-Keeping
An IG’s report has largely confirmed allegations regarding lax record-keeping practices of the VA regional office in Oakland, adding that …More
Council Focusing on IT Workforce
The CIO Council has finished collecting data on aspects of the federal IT workforce, an area of particular concern in …More
GAO Questions Effectiveness of SES Ratings
Making meaningful distinctions in SES performance “continues to be a challenge for many agencies” since almost nine-tenths of career execs …More
Differences Among Agencies Another Concern
Another point of concern for GAO was that certain agencies had especially high numbers of execs rated at one of …More
Legislative, Administrative Efforts Ahead
Criticisms that the SES system does not make meaningful distinctions among its relatively small population of about 8,000 are commonly …More
FOIA Reform Bill Advances
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved S-337 to compel agencies to respond more quickly and openly to Freedom of Information …More
Improvements Still Needed in Management of Energy Dept. Conferences
The Energy Department has made some improvements in the management of its conferences since an audit report was issued last …More
IRS Tests Appointments for Customer Service
The IRS, which has been warning taxpayers about limits on its ability to provide customer service due to budgetary restrictions, …More
More Attention Needed against Over-Classification
Intelligence agencies need to apply more management attention to a 2010 law and an Obama administration initiative to reduce over-classification …More
Better Accounting Needed of Hazardous Sites, GAO Says
USDA and Interior have identified certain contaminated or potentially contaminated sites under their responsibility but neither agency has a reliable …More
Energy Dept. Purchase Card Controls Deemed Good Overall
The Energy Department has established procedures and policies to assist in eliminating improper use of purchase cards, an IG report …More
RS Also Gets Good Grade on Purchase Cards
Meanwhile, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has issued a similar report regarding the IRS, finding that the agency …More
Consumer Demand for Mailed Bills Remains
The large majority of consumers prefer to get bills through the mail even though they may pay them electronically, according …More
DoD Per Diem Policy Called Risk to Good Management
Changes to per diem policy that DoD implemented last fall could hamper the department’s ability to line up employees willing …More
Property Management Rules Revised
GSA has revised the sections of the Federal Property Management Regulations dealing with management and disposal of excess federal property …More
IG Backs IRS on Performance Award Limits
The IRS followed its contractual obligations with the NTEU union when it acted to limit employee performance awards due to …More
OPM to Launch ‘REDI’ Initiative
OPM has announced plans for a new initiative called “the REDI Roadmap” which is to stand for Recruitment, Engagement, Diversity …More
Fed Workforce Differs from General Labor Pool
OPM’s most recent data showed that the federal workforce differs from the American labor pool in several significant ways in …More
