Vision-Dental Bill Cost Estimated
A bill (HR-3751) to require a study of current dental, vision and hearing benefits under the Federal Employees Health Benefits …More
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A key provision of the new Medicare prescription drug law and a recent ruling by a federal commission threaten your …More
Performance Funding Also to Be Decided
The Transportation-Treasury bill also will have to address-or ignore-the White House’s request for funding for pay-for-performance for federal employees. The …More
Spending Measure Decisions Ahead
To date, congressional appropriators have held off moving the spending bills that will be needed to fund federal agencies in …More
Raise Language Remains Pending
A measure that likely will serve as the indicator for the January 2005 federal pay raise has been stuck in …More
Four of Five Funds Fall
All of the Thrift Savings Plan investment funds except the government securities (G) fund dropped in April, with the small …More
Some Applications, Claims Denied
Forte said that the approval rate for “underwritten” applications is 85 percent, which he said is in line with industry …More
LTC Program Is Largest of Its Type
The Federal Long Term Care Insurance program, with about 200,000 enrollees since being launched two years ago, is the largest …More
Overview of Reform Bill
A measure recently passed by the Senate (S-129) could be the major civil service reform bill to move through Congress …More
Retroactive Pay Affects Benefits
The retroactive payment is considered regular basic pay, subject to the same tax and other policies typically applying to basic …More
Retroactive Raise Still on Way for Some
Employees of many agencies report that they still haven’t received the retroactive raise authorized in late January when President Bush …More
Personnel Actions May Follow
OPM also told agencies that it will monitor their responses in cases where such abuses have been found and where …More
OPM Steps Up Focus on Diplomas
Federal employment and background investigations forms will be revamped to require that employees and job applicants distinguish between diplomas and …More
Bid to Curtail Base Closings Process Possible
Among the proposals that may be generated by committees considering the DoD bill-especially on the House side-are ideas to limit …More
Many Requests on the Table
Last year’s version of the DoD authorization bill was the vehicle for allowing DoD to create a new civilian personnel …More
Key Annual Bill Starts Progress
The House and Senate Armed Services Committees this week will start writing the Defense Department authorization bill, an annual measure …More
Key Vote on Pay Raise Coming
The House and Senate are continuing to work out differences on a budget blueprint for the fiscal year that starts …More
Overtime Rules Likely to Have Little Effect
Proposed new rules from the Labor Department on overtime policy likely will have relatively little effect on the federal workforce, …More
COLA Count Hits Halfway Mark
The consumer price index on which the January 2005 federal retiree cost-of-living adjustment is based was up 0.5 percent in …More
Preparations for New Fund Begin
The new TSP L fund likely won’t be available until sometime in 2005, due to the need to choose a …More
TSP Board Approves New Fund
The Thrift Savings Plan’s governing board has approved creation of a new “lifecycle” (L) fund, which essentially would be a …More
Closer Look at Call Letter
OPM made its announcement regarding HSAs-which had been expected for many months–in its annual “call letter” to carriers that invites …More
Other 2005 FEHB Highlights
The call letter also addressed several other coverage issues for the 2005 FEHB plan year, including greater oversight of “pharmacy …More
Terms of Plans Outlined
OPM said that carriers that want to create such accounts could do so in one of two ways. Those that …More
HRAs Also Ordered
OPM acknowledged that the introduction of HSAs “has been the source of both great excitement and significant concern among both …More
HSAs Coming to FEHB
The Office of Personnel Management has authorized creation of health savings accounts in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program as …More
Closer Look at Call Letter
The Office of Personnel Management has released its annual “call letter” to carriers that invites them to propose benefits structures …More
Guidance Issued on Military Leave
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service has issued guidance on the policy effective last November 23 giving employees who are …More
Several Retirement Proposals Also Made
In addition to the FEHB-related proposal, DoD is asking Congress to: have annuities under the FERS system begin the day …More
DoD Seeks FEHB Payment Extension
In a new package of legislative proposals to Congress that would be government-wide, the Defense Department is asking to extend …More
