Federal employees are encouraged to donate annual leave time to feds in Kentucky who were affected by the recent flood disaster. In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Congress approved an emergency leave fund for federal employees, totaling $570 ... Read More

The American Federation for Government Employees (AFGE) issues legal complaint against the Housing and Urban Development Agency (HUD) over remote work. Similar to the legal case brought against the Bureau of Fiscal Service (BFS) by the National Treasury Employees Union ... 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

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

What feds need to know regarding rules, eligibility, and the application process for the FERS disability retirement. First off, if you are a federal employee who is able to take an immediate FERS pension, then that is probably the route ... Read More

Per a June announcement from OPM, revisions to FLTCIP are likely – including new application periods and higher premiums. The Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP) is considerably different than similar insurance programs for federal workers like FEGLI (life ... Read More

Check out this week’s quiz on federal employee retirement benefits– [ays_quiz id=”15″] Quiz on Federal Employee Retirement Benefits

In NTEU (National Treasury Employee Union) talks with BFS (Bureau of Fiscal Service) about remote work pilot program abruptly halted. Part of the Treasury Department, the BFS announced to its workers that a remote work pilot program will not be ... Read More

The latest quiz for federal employees. [ays_quiz id=”14″] Quiz for Federal Employees: IT Workforce, TSP, and July 4th