The author details what happens to your federal benefits if you pass away while still working for the government.
• Leave a CommentRecently introduced legislation in Congress would restrict the federal government’s ability under the Patriot Act to collect information on Americans who are not connected to an ongoing investigation.
• Leave a CommentCongress may let student loan interest rates double July 1, but some federal workers and congressional staff likely are protected from the impact by a taxpayer-funded benefit that provided more than $20 million last year for them to pay down their college debts.
• Leave a CommentLawyers in federal agencies contributed more to Barack Obama than Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election, a pattern that mirrored giving at every federal agency, a review of Federal Election Commission records by a Pepperdine University law professor reveals.
• Leave a CommentA legal expert says that the reports on the Supreme Court’s recent decision on proof of citizenship are off base.
• Leave a CommentTwo top officials at the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service (DS) — the federal law enforcement agency that protects American diplomats and investigates allegations of criminal misconduct by State Department employees — gave sworn testimony earlier this year that appears to be evasive at best, and untrue at worst
• Leave a CommentPolitical appointees at the Defense Department, the CIA and the White House brushed aside concerns from career officials about helping two Hollywood filmmakers research their 2012 movie about the top-secret Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a report from the Pentagon’s inspector general.
• Leave a CommentA Democratic congressman has released the full transcript of congressional investigators’ interview with an Internal Revenue Service manager and self-described conservative Republican who said the close scrutiny of tea party groups’ tax forms originated in his Cincinnati IRS office, not in Washington.
• Leave a CommentIn order to solicit broad stakeholder input on the Postal Reform Act of 2013 prior to introduction, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is posting a discussion draft of new legislation and soliciting feedback.
• Leave a CommentWomen will have the chance to join the Navy SEALS, Army Rangers and other specialized combat outfits beginning in 2016 under plans approved Tuesday by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
• Leave a CommentUnions representing federal employees are gearing up for a battle against government contractors after the revelation that the National Security Agency leaks came from a 29-year-old at Booz Allen Hamilton.
• Leave a CommentConservative activists are planning to storm Capitol Hill on Wednesday for what they are predicting will be “the largest Tea Party protest since 2010.”
• Leave a CommentYahoo has become the latest tech company to reveal how many requests US law enforcement agencies have made for access to its customers’ data.
• Leave a CommentU.S. Senators Dean Heller (R-NV) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) have introduced the Veterans Benefits Claims Faster Filing Act to help reduce the veterans disability claims backlog.
• Leave a CommentUndercover video shot in May by a conservative activist shows two corporate distributors of free cell phones handing out the mobile devices to people who have promised to sell them for drug money, to buy shoes and handbags, to pay off their bills, or just for extra spending cash. The phones are distributed as part of the FCC’s ‘Lifeline’ program.
• Leave a CommentPaul Mannina, the U.S. Department of Labor attorney charged in a home invasion, was found dead in a D.C. jail cell of an apparent suicide Tuesday.
• Leave a CommentIs Edward Snowden a hero or a traitor for leaking the information about the NSA? FedSmith.com users say he is a traitor in our recent survey.
• Leave a CommentThe Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) has announced the issuance of the Guide to Negotiability Under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute.
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