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
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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
Special Survivor Benefit Election Opportunity Ending
Friday (June 26) marks the end of a special retirement survivor benefit election opportunity that was created in the wake …More
More People, More Data Involved in Theft of Personnel Records
The computer hacking of personal information on federal employees held by OPM involves more people and more types of information …More
Fallout Spreads in Many Directions
In the wake of the attack, OPM has offered services including 18 months of a credit monitoring service provided by …More
Frustration over Lack of Disclosure Also Widespread
Many individual employees are expressing frustration over the lack of specifics from OPM regarding what information was taken and when. …More
Key Spending Bill Maintains Silence on Raise
The House Appropriations Committee could vote as soon as today (June 17) on the key funding bill for federal employment …More
Air Force Offering Buyouts, Early Outs to Some
The Air Force this week is sending notices to many headquarters-level civilian employees offering early retirement coupled with buyouts, the …More
Rules Proposed on Border Patrol Overtime Changes
A revised overtime system for Customs and Border Protection officers enacted last year will take effect with the first pay …More
Notices Being Sent on Breach of Personal Information
OPM has started notifying—most commonly to work email accounts, in some case by mail—employees and former employees whose personal information …More
Employees Advised to Protect Themselves
OPM has said federal employees and former employees should: heighten their overall sensitivity to potential identity theft and fraud schemes, …More
OPM, SSA Announce Computer Match Program
Meanwhile, OPM has said it will begin a program of matching its records of FERS disability annuitants against SSA files …More
White House Silent on Employee Performance Provisions
The White House has objected to several provisions of the Senate ‘s version of the DoD authorization bill (S-1376), although …More
OPM Sets Policies on Administrative Leave
OPM has issued a policy statement summarizing the situations in which administrative leave, also called excused absence, is appropriate. The …More
TSP Withdrawal Bill Clears Congress
The Senate has joined the House in passing HR-2146, to allow penalty-free TSP withdrawals in any form for federal law …More
More GS Localities Projected for 2016
A long-standing proposal to add more GS locality areas would take effect in January, boosting pay there above what employees …More
More than 100,000 Employees Could Benefit from Locality Pay
Locality pay is based the location of the job, not on the employee’s place of residence, and reflects comparisons of …More
