There are probably several reasons for the small pay raises of the past few years. Looking back, there are times when pay raises have been substantial. Why is today different?
• Leave a CommentThe author outlines special retirement considerations in areas such as FERS annuity calculations, the Thrift Savings Plan, and insurance for federal employees who work in law enforcement.
• Leave a CommentThe outstanding backlog of retirement claims grew again in February according to new data from the Office of Personnel Management.
• Leave a CommentThe head of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday sharply accused the CIA of violating federal law and undermining the constitutional principle of congressional oversight as she detailed publicly for the first time how the agency secretly removed documents from computers used by her panel to investigate a controversial interrogation program.
• Leave a CommentDarryl Issa’s committee has released a report on Lois Lerner’s involvement in the IRS targeting of conservative groups.
• Leave a CommentLax oversight at the Environmental Protection Agency allowed the organization’s employees to misuse federal charge cards for buying items such as gym memberships, meals and gift cards, according to a recent watchdog report.
• Leave a CommentThe Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would make big changes in the military justice system to deal with sexual assault.
• Leave a CommentA federal judge in San Francisco stopped the destruction Monday of millions of telephone records collected by the National Security Agency more than five years ago.
• Leave a CommentThe author discusses what he believes to be a terrific productivity tool and says he wishes he’d discovered it years ago.
• Leave a CommentThe Transportation Security Administration has called off — for now — live tests of technology that would expand background checks on airplane passengers to include analyses of their online presences.
• Leave a CommentIn the current economy, the retirement benefits provided by the federal government simply aren’t enough to support all retirees. The author offers some suggestions for ways to earn extra income working during retirement.
• Leave a CommentEdward Snowden, the man who leaked the National Security Agency data collection programs, said Monday the act of mass surveillance is “setting fire to the future of the Internet.”
• Leave a CommentLittle-known Social Security rules allow beneficiaries to receive lump-sum payments that can amount to thousands of dollars. Attractive as this may sound, such payments permanently reduce beneficiaries’ monthly benefits and should generally be taken as a last resort.
• Leave a CommentDespite fierce competition from other cities nationwide and a shrinking federal budget, Kansas City not only kept all the federal agencies and thousands of jobs that were at the massive former World War II defense plant slated for demolition in 2016, it reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in new spin-off development.
• Leave a CommentHere are seven current trends in the world of retirement, outlined from a recent study by the University of Michigan Retirement Research Center.
• Leave a CommentRetirees looking for financial security might want to think twice about seeking warmer environs. A new study has some states not known for the warm weather as the best places for retirees.
• Leave a CommentThe impact of sequestration budgetary limits imposed last year may never be fully known, a new study says, but one effect on federal employees is clear: it cost nearly 800,000 of them upward of $1.4 billion total in lost salary.
• Leave a CommentImmigration reform may be stalled in Congress, but a new Obama administration policy is extending legal status and military benefits to thousands of illegal immigrants who are the spouses, parents and children of American military members.
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