Reminder: 2024 to Be Last Year Before Postal Population is Split Off from FEHB
Next year will be the last before the Postal Service population is carved out of the FEHB into a new …More
Next year will be the last before the Postal Service population is carved out of the FEHB into a new …More
The enrollee share of FEHB premiums will rise 7.7 percent on average for 2024, OPM has said, with a reduction …More
All three stock-based TSP funds posted substantial losses in September, with the small company stock S fund down 4.9 percent, …More
The EEOC has issued for public comment a proposed update to its enforcement policies on various types of harassment under …More
The Office of Government Ethics has issued a guide for federal employees on complying with rules to take effect November …More
In the latest of a series of warnings about safety risks in federal office space, the inspector general of the …More
The Federal Salary Council, the key advisory panel on federal employee pay in general—and on the GS locality pay system …More
A key stage in the process for EEO complaints—issuance of a “final agency decision”—is slowing down and the average time …More
OPM has said it will soon administer its Federal Employee Benefits Survey to some 100,000 federal employees who will be …More
Effective with the start of fiscal year 2024 on October 1, the standard lodgings rate for federal travel destinations without …More
Typically, about a week before a potential shutdown—meaning potentially late this week—OMB convenes calls with agencies, telling them to brush …More
With a September 30 deadline for Congress to head off a partial government shutdown but no clear plan in place …More
With just one month now remaining, the count toward the January 2024 federal retirement COLA stands at 3.3 percent, following …More
Most enrollees in the Federal Long-Term Care Insurance Program must choose over the next two months between higher premiums or …More
In what amounts to a preemptive strike against a potential future Republican administration, the Biden administration has proposed rules that …More
The NFFE union has warned of a potential surge in turnover among federal wildland firefighters if Congress does not enact …More
The House committee that oversees the federal workplace has scheduled one of its few hearings of the year focusing on …More
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has asked the inspectors general of the Cabinet departments and major agencies to assess the impact …More
The Justice Department again has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to end a suit over the Biden administration’s now-lifted Coronavirus …More
The Senate has readied for floor voting S-10, the latest in a series of bills aiming to address chronic understaffing …More
An inspector general report has recommended that the IRS better document instances of “potentially dangerous” taxpayers, in the latest report …More
OPM has called on agencies to report on child care subsidies they provide to employees for a report to be …More
The time ahead may show the results of pressure—mostly from congressional Republicans but lately also from the White House—for agencies …More
All three stock-based TSP funds posted losses in August—dragging all the lifecycle L funds into negative territory as well—although each …More
HHS has taken a step toward the possible easing the impact of marijuana use on federal employment suitability and security …More
A Pentagon office established last year to collect and publicly release information about UFOs—formally, “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAPs—has said …More
Each week, the number of organizations announcing their return to the office grows. Zoom, the company whose technology helped drive …More
The group that brought a so-far successful challenge to the Biden administration’s Coronavirus vaccination mandate for federal employees has asked …More
The TSP has said it will delay until 2026 a change in its policy for “catch-up contributions” that was to …More
Terms of FEHB coverage have received attention from both OPM and Capitol Hill ahead of the annual announcement of premium …More