The Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system will provide personalized benefits handbooks to all its millions of enrollees.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a brief statement Feb. 21 that offered a ray of hope to retired military service members who could be affected by proposed hikes in the cost of their Tricare coverage.
The U.S. Postal Service last week released an updated five-year plan, which USPS said can produce savings of at least $20 billion a year by 2015. The plan calls for trimming 155,000 full-time positions over the period.
Congress on Feb. 17 passed a bill to extend the payroll tax cut that includes a measure requiring new federal employees to pay more into their pensions.
President Obama on Feb. 16 sent Congress a legislative proposal asking lawmakers to grant him streamlined authority to reorganize and consolidate federal agencies.
The House is expected to vote Feb. 16 on a bill that proposes to boost federal employees’ contributions to their retirement and institute a high-5 annuity calculation for new employees.
Press reports that congressional negotiators had included a measure to require new federal employees to pay more toward retirement as part of a bipartisan bill to extend the payroll tax cut and continue funding for unemployment benefits drew the rapid condemnation of federal employee groups.
A new analysis finds that women in 2011 were more positive about their federal jobs and workplaces than men.
A Democratic congressman on Feb. 14 submitted an amendment to remove from a transportation bill measures that require federal employees to pay more into their pensions.
A tentative agreement on a bill in Congress to extend the soon-to-expire payroll tax holiday may include provisions to require federal employees to pay more for their retirement.
The Thrift Savings Plan website has posted a number of materials to help investors decide whether or not to participate in the new TSP Roth option.
A union that represents mail carriers said a proposal in the president’s fiscal 2013 budget that would allow the U.S. Postal Service to cut back delivery to five days would endanger the organization’s viability.
The Defense Department’s fiscal 2013 budget proposal includes a range of cost-saving measures aimed at trimming DOD’s growing healthcare expenses.
Numbers from the Office of Personnel Management indicate that more federal employees are filing applications for retirement.