In 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 CommentOklahoma excludes from state taxes 100 percent of what federal retirees paid into the old Civil Service Retirement System, though many retirees, and even tax preparers, miss that fact, expert says.
• Leave a CommentThe former government contractor’s stolen documents revealing vast amounts of government overreach have damaged poll numbers for defenders of the surveillance programs while handing Republican presidential hopeful Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul a potent wedge issue that threatens to upend his party’s traditionally strong national security stance.
• Leave a CommentU.S. Border Patrol agents can still use deadly force to respond to rock-throwing attacks along the border, even though they must take care in assessing whether their lives are in danger,
• Leave a CommentEx-NSA contractor Edward Snowden said he tried more than 10 times to go through official channels to alert someone about government spying programs, but nobody listened.
• Leave a CommentSeaside, CA letter carrier Rafael Leon recently helped save an elderly woman who had fallen and was injured inside of her home.
• Leave a CommentWhistle-blower says U.S. missed Boston Marathon, ‘underwear bomb’ plots because NSA was ‘tied up monitoring online games.’
• Leave a CommentThe annual survey last year by the Society for Human Resource Management found a greater increase in the number of companies planning to offer telecommuting in 2014 than those offering just about any other new benefit.
• Leave a CommentObama’s fiscal 2015 budget calls for a 1 percent raise for federal workers. Recent years have been worse, with pay freezes. There’s no ‘crash’ yet in workforce quality, but OMB Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell worries it could happen.
• Leave a CommentAn Oklahoma postal worker is arrested, accused of trafficking drugs for friends through the mail.
• Leave a CommentAfter years of focusing on outside threats, the federal government and its contractors are turning inward, aiming a range of new technologies and counterintelligence strategies at their own employees to root out spies, terrorists or leakers.
• Leave a CommentNew Mexico is one of 10 states to see a dramatic decrease in federal employment since 2007, according to a Census Bureau report released Friday.
• Leave a CommentDespite Republican Rep. Darrell Issa apparently telling his Democratic counterpart on the House oversight committee he’s sorry for cutting him off during a tense hearing earlier this week, Democrats are mulling the possibility of an ethics complaint.
• Leave a CommentWith a little advance planning and self-discipline, you might not ever be famous but you could be rich.
• Leave a CommentIn a recent survey, we asked our users what size pay raise in 2015 would be fair. The majority of respondents said that they thought 4% would be appropriate.
• Leave a CommentThe author says it is becoming increasingly dangerous to criticize people’s weight. He says federal employees need to consider at what point it becomes unlawful harassment or retaliation when they encounter it in the workplace.
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