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The 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey results showed a clear trend towards declining morale among the overall federal workforce. It turns out that the negative sentiment and morale problems are no different among FedSmith.com users.
The author says that use of the penny and the nickel are rapidly losing ground to electronic currency, so much so that he says it no longer makes sense to keep them in circulation.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has reintroduced legislation this week that would repeal Obamacare and open the Federal Employee Health Benefits program up to all Americans.
Senator David Vitter (R-LA) has introduced several pieces of legislation as the new Congress convened this week that would tackle issues such as Congressional term limits and forcing lawmakers to use Obamacare.
Nominations are being accepted for the 2015 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals (Sammies) from now until January 16.
In its first session in 2015, the House acted quickly to pass a legislation designed to assist veterans in getting jobs as well as chip away at certain parts of Obamacare.
The Thrift Savings Plan has released important information for plan participants about the processing schedule in January.
The Office of Personnel Management has released its latest monthly retirement processing status report. The figures show that OPM was able to reduce the outstanding backlog by 17%.
Illegal partisan activities triggered an Office of Special Counsel investigation and eventually led to this postal employee’s removal.
All of the TSP funds with the exception of the I fund were up in 2014 although December was a down month for some of the funds. The best fund for investors in 2014 was the C fund.
