Constructing Your TSP Options: Follow the Money
Should real estate investment trusts be added to your TSP?
Pay & Benefits
Get the latest federal employee pay news, including updates on federal pay raises, GS pay scale changes, locality pay, and federal compensation policy. Stay informed on TSP news, TSP fund performance, contribution limits, and investment updates. This category also covers FEHB premiums, FEGLI rates, FEDVIP dental and vision benefits, and major OPM policy changes, federal workforce legislation, and other developments that impact federal employee pay, benefits, and take‑home compensation.
Pay, Performance and Change: Is the Sky Falling on the Federal Civil Service?
Pay for performance may be coming to the rest of government–not just DHS and DoD. The concept scares many readers. What are the options and what will the future hold for employees of the executive branch of government?
Are You Ready for Pay for Performance?
It is tough to argue against pay for performance in theory, it becomes much more difficult to actually implement these systems. Federal agencies will face their share of growing pains in implementing pay for performance.
It’s An Election Year: Health Benefits for Some New Retirees May Change; Future of Some Agencies on the Line
It’s an election year. Here are several proposals that have been made that would impact the civil service structure and the benefits of some current federal employees.
Smoking and the Cost of Your Health Insurance
Should smokers who participate in the federal employee health plan pay more for health insurance than non-smokers?
Health Benefits, Federal Employees and Money
Young versus old and increasing cost for better medical care for Americans provides the basis for proposed changes to the federal employee health benefits program. It’s expensive and there are likely to be winners and losers with the final outcome.
Does Salary Indicate A Person’s Value to an Organization?
How much is a federal employee worth? The latest negotiations between the FAA and the controller’s union are vitriolic and some of the issues boil down to money.
Merry Christmas! President Signs Pay Raise EO
President Bush signed an Executive Order late yesterday approving the 2006 pay raise for federal employees.
Is There Room for the I Fund In Your TSP?
American jobs are often going where labor is cheaper and the investment climate provides a better chance for profitability. Is your TSP fund investment missing a good opportunity?
More Money in Your Paycheck But Less for Mileage
The reimbursement rates for use of privately owned vehicles while on government business are going down in January.
