Government spending bill doesn’t mention federal pay raise – a strong indication that Congress supports the White House recommendation of 4.6%. The federal employee pay raise for 2023 has been expected to be 4.6% since the White House released its ... Read More

Will the WEP and GPO finally be eliminated? Legislation first introduced in 2021 is receiving push from Congress to see that the bill receives a vote. In the world of government service – on the local, state, and federal levels ... Read More

STWS advisor Jennifer Meyer provides the inside scoop on taking full advantage of our resources for feds. Jennifer Meyer, CFP© Complimentary Webinars: Register Here I love hearing that Feds who have found my articles on FedSmith and Serving Those Who ... Read More

Advisory council suggests adding new localities, adjusting some existing ones to encompass more federal workers, and loosening requirements for locality designation. A council that advises government officials on federal employee compensation has issued formal recommendations that, if implemented, would give ... Read More

Looming since the 1990s, are retiring baby boomers in the Government about to cause the long-predicted retirement tsunami? Experts in public service began predicting a ‘retirement tsunami‘ back in the 1990s, predicting it would crash into the figurative beaches around ... Read More

Government spending bill doesn’t mention federal pay raise – a strong indication that Congress supports the White House recommendation of 4.6%. Similar to the appropriations bill that the House of Representatives approved of earlier in the summer, the recent government ... Read More

The Government Pension Offset (GPO) is a Social Security Administration (SSA) law that affects spouses, former spouses, widows or widowers. But not CSRS Annuitants. Edward A. Zurndorfer The Government Pension Offset (GPO) is a Social Security Administration (SSA) law that ... Read More

How pay caps depend on what locality a federal employee is based in, plus a bill to be proposed that might give capped salaries bigger annual pay raises. Non-executive federal employees, for the most part, are subjected to a salary ... Read More

Updated inflation numbers suggest largest COLA since 1981 saw 11.2% – and 2023’s Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) could get even higher. Just a few weeks ago, our COLA update indicated that next year’s adjustment was estimated to be between 7.3% and ... Read More

The hefty backlog of retirement claims to be processed by OPM reached its lowest point of 2022 at the end of June, but remains above last year’s levels. Ready to Retire? FERS Benefits Webinar CSRS Benefits Webinar In a recent ... Read More