The House Committee on Oversight and Government reform sent a letter to Eric Holder again requesting special counsel be appointed in the IRS targeting investigation, citing a new potential conflict of interest the Committee recently learned about.
The author says that while the idea of exposing all wages to payroll taxes is one of the more popular policy options in the Social Security debate, it is bad policy that will only serve to further destabilize the system over time.
San Francisco Postal Police Officers Raymond Tam and Harry Leung were providing security at a USPS booth during the city’s Chinatown Lunar New Year Festival, attended by thousands of people, when they noticed a five-year-old girl standing alone next to the booth.
Historically, federal agencies have used what is known as the “mailbox rule.” This maxim provides that if a notice or letter is properly addressed and duly mailed, it is presumed to have arrived at the mailing address in due course. However, the author cites cases which illustrate that this does not always work out as an agency would expect.
Open season is coming up. Here is why this could be important to federal employees.
According to the GAO, DoD violated the law when it transferred five Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to Qatar for the return of an American Army sergeant.
A new report from the Tax Foundation says that using IRS income data to measure overall financial health is a mistake.
The percentage of participants who are contributing to the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) hit a record high in July 2014.
How does the CSRS offset retirement situation work?
A common situation involving agency misinformation can arise when a federal employee is told that he or she can withdraw his or her contributions and can later redeposit retirement contributions after departing federal service and when he or she reaches retirement age. The author explains the details of this misconception.
