Have you checked out the value of your TSP funds as a result of market activity yesterday? If you are an investor in the Thrift Savings Plan, the rapid 1000 point drop in the stock market average was an historic event and you (or your money) participated in the event. Here are the results of yesterday’s stock trading.
Legislation has been introduced to modify the law implementing the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program so employees could add coverage for their adult children who qualify.
For the third month in a row, investors in the federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) are enjoying positive returns in most of the TSP funds. In March, some TSP investors decided to move money into the small company fund. The gamble paid off in April.
The Minerals Management Service is again in the spotlight. After a well-publicized ethics scandal in 2008, the agency that regulates oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is back in the news.
Changes to the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHB) as a result of the new health care legislation are emerging—sometimes with a few minor slip-ups.
Will your adult children be covered under your federal health insurance until they are 26 years old? It is a simple question but the answer is as complex as “yes”, “no”, and “maybe”.
Changes are occurring in the federal employee health insurance program, including changes to the federal dental and vision insurance program. Here are a couple that will impact a number of readers.
New people bring new ideas. OPM’s John Berry has been creative by urging time off for some in DC to get an extra hour to walk to the cherry blossoms and, later this week, hosting an event to come up with new recipes from federal employees to go into a federal government cookbook.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has not been silent about its desire to change the federal hiring process which, it says, is too complex, takes too long and doesn’t get the job done in helping increase the size of Uncle Sam’s civilian army. Here is a significant change now being implemented.
Discussion of “risk pools” and “call letters” from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) doesn’t sound very exciting. And, in most years, the issuing of an OPM call letter doesn’t generate much press publicity in the federal community. This year may be different though.
