A Rare Event: FEGLI Open Season Coming Next Year
OPM announced that there will be an upcoming FEGLI open season.
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OPM’s Retirement Backlog Grows by 13% in July
If you are a federal employee planning to retire soon and were hoping for a quick turn around on your retirement application, you may be in for some bad news: the outstanding backlog of retirement applications at the Office of Personnel Management grew by just over 13% in July.
Is There a Gender Pay Gap in the Federal Government?
Office of Personnel Management acting director Beth Colbert recently issued a memo directing federal agencies to conduct ongoing analyses to identify and target the existence of gender related pay discrepancies among their employees.
Federal Long Term Care Insurance Rates Going Up for New Enrollees
Premium rates for new subscribers to the federal long term health care insurance just went up.
Bigger Is Not Better For OPM
The author says OPM still has the potential to be the talent management agency the government needs after the data breaches.
What’s Next for OPM?
The recent data breaches have put the Office of Personnel Management into a deep hole. The author looks at some deliberate steps he says OPM must take to begin resolving its current predicament and eventually emerge as a better and more effective agency.
Lawmaker Wants to Give OPM Hack Victims $5 Million in Identity Insurance
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) plans to introduce an amendment that would give federal workers impacted by the two data breaches at the Office of Personnel Management much more identity theft protection than what has been offered thus far.
2016 Pay Raise One Step Closer to Becoming A Reality
A pay raise for federal employees in 2016 just became one step closer to reality.
Can You No Longer Do Your Federal Job? Avoid These Mistakes
If you are a federal employee who is facing an injury or illness that prevents you from working, you can apply for federal disability retirement benefits. But there are mistakes that could end up costing you the right to collect monthly benefits payments. Here are some common ones to make sure you avoid.
OPM Director Archuleta Resigns in Wake of Data Breaches
Katherine Archuleta is resigning as OPM director in the wake of the recent data breaches that hit the agency’s computer systems according to a White House official.
