Reg Jones Expert’s View

For the first time since 2002, there will be an open season in the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program …More

Here’s a question that comes up all the time. Can an employee get credit for time spent at one of …More

The rules on full-time work and holidays are pretty clear. What is clearly less clear is how holidays are treated …More

There’s been a lot of confusion among federal retirees who saw an increase in the federal taxes taken out of …More

Lately there’s been a lot of water cooler chatter about the possibility of federal retiree annuities being based on an …More

In my last article, I described the problem OPM had with properly assessing the correct amount of interest on accounts …More

OPM has had problems in billing employees for the right amount if they were either 1) making deposits to get …More

There are times when a communication from OPM is clear enough that it doesn’t require a translation to be understood. …More

Here we go again. For the second straight year, some retirees and survivors who are covered by Medicare Part B …More

While it’s been true for some time that in certain situations agencies may advance sick leave to an employee, under …More

The original purpose of sick leave was to allow employees to be absent from work either because of physical or …More

The 80 percent limit. I’ve written about it before, and I’ve started asking myself how long it will be before …More

You may never have (probably never have) heard the term "present value factor." Present value factors are a set of …More

Here we go again. Retirees, survivors and Social Security beneficiaries are facing a second year without a cost of living …More

Few benefit programs are as static as the Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Program. Except for rare and unpredictable open …More