Expanded Benefits on the Table
Still uncertain is the total cost of the second contract and whether Congress might step in to block the administration’s …More
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The Federal Trade Commission has issued a warning about a scam being perpetrated on federal employees purporting to offer money …More
Limits on VA Employee Rights Advancing
The House plans to vote today (July 29) on a bill (HR-1994) to: make the standard probationary period for VA …More
Clearance Breach Response in Hurry Up and Wait Mode
Federal employees who were affected by the breach of security clearance files still have not been sent notices of specific …More
Big Task, Unknown Cost Ahead
The number of people aside, notifying those in the clearance files group could prove a much more difficult task since …More
Scope of Services Still in Flux
Several proposals are pending in Congress to apply the broader and longer services promised to those affected by the clearance …More
Almost Recess Time, but Much Work Remains
Congress is set to take its annual summer recess at the end of next week, lasting through Labor Day, with …More
G Fund Rate Cut Idea Resurfaces Briefly
Reducing the rate of return in the most popular of the TSP’s offerings, the government securities G fund, received tentative …More
House Backs Boost to EEO Rights
The House has passed HR-1557, which would grant greater independence to agency equal employment offices, where federal employees must initially …More
More Notices and Help Coming on Data Theft, Eventually
While OPM has provided more details regarding the computer theft of federal employees’ personal information in security clearance files, specific …More
Higher Level of Services Promised to those Affected by Clearance Breach
Administration officials have promised to extend for those affected by the clearance file breach services beyond those being provided to …More
Expansion of Benefits May be in the Cards
OPM has raised the possibility of making some of those types of services a basic part of federal employee benefits, …More
TSP to Look at Investment Window
TSP officials are expected to make a formal recommendation to the agency’s governing board soon on a long-dormant authority to …More
Rules Proposed on Change in Default Fund
The TSP on Monday (July 13) proposed rules to carry out a law enacted last year changing the default investment …More
VA, Conversion Rights Bills Advancing
The House has passed HR-1531, which makes an employee of a land management agency serving under a time-limited appointment in …More
Announcement on Clearance Database Breach Coming
OPM has said it plans to release further information this week on a breach of the security clearance application database …More
No Changes in Benefits Policies, for Now at Least, Due to Court Ruling
The Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding same-sex marriage nationally will not have any immediate impact on spousal and survivor benefits …More
Prior Policies on Raise to Be Followed
The House could vote at any time on the financial services-general government spending bill that would for the third straight …More
Measure Contains Some Old, Some New Policy Provisions
The measure would continue several long-standing provisions, including a general ban on abortion coverage in the FEHB program and a …More
Guard Against Hitting TSP Dollar Limit
The midpoint of the year is a good time for FERS employees to check to make sure they won’t lose …More
What Happens When Limit is Hit
If FERS investors hit the dollar cap before the last pay period of the year, their own investments will shut …More
On Data Breach, Still More Anxiety and Anger than Answers
The continued dearth of information from OPM regarding the scope and potential impact of a widescale computer hack of files …More
Numbers, Impact of Clearance Breach Still Unknown
More concerning to many is the separate breach of security clearance application files, which happened earlier though it was discovered …More
Award ‘Clawback,’ Other Bills Advance
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has approved S-742, to prohibit an agency from paying a performance award …More
Measure Targets Misuse of Retirement Payments
Also approved by the committee was a recently offered bill (S-1576) to add protections against fraud by “representative payees” in …More
Many Details of Computer Hack Still Undisclosed
Nearly three weeks after OPM disclosed that hackers had stolen from its computer systems records involving highly personal federal employee …More
Security File Breach Seems the More Serious
Affected persons could, eventually, receive notices regarding one or both of two separate database intrusions. One involved a personnel data …More
Congress, Unions Continue to Pressure OPM
The congressional committees handing federal employment matters have scheduled more hearings where members plan to press for such information—today (June …More
Retirement Processing Gets Renewed Attention
The House report on the general government spending bill that is now ready for a House votefocuses on another long-running …More
DoD Employee Performance Issues Move toward Decision
A House-Senate conference will address several key personnel issues affecting civilian employees of DoD, the largest department, now that the …More
