Protecting Sean Penn (With Federal Government Computers)
Some federal employees may be about to run into a firestorm. How is government equipment being used to influence public opinion on issues through the use of Wikipedia?
Author: Ralph R. Smith
Who Will Get the Benefit of Your Retirement Annuity?
Who will receive your federal pension payments after your death? While an ideal relationship may be a couple getting married and living together for many years, reality can be different. With complex relationships, determining the disposition of a federal pension payment may provide employment for a number of people. Here is one of these cases.
Privacy Among Federal Employees: Who Has More Rights?
What happens to information in agency case files when an agency employee with access to those files pursues his own complaint? Can the employee in the human resources or EEO office use those files to his own advantage? In a complex case, the MSPB upholds a 30-day suspension of a federal employee who had access to private information and who also had his own axe to grind.
Stock Market Volatility and Your Retirement Funds: How Did TSP Investors React Last Week?
A rational person could read recent financial headlines and conclude that the end of wealth accumulation was at hand. A credit crunch, falling housing prices, falling stock prices and general panic seemed to be in the air. How did TSP investors react? Did they bail out of their TSP stock funds? Here are the statistics that reflect the actions of your fellow investors.
Average Federal Employee Compensation in 2006: $111,180
What is the value of the compensation package for the average federal employee in 2006? Would you believe $111,180?
TSP Stock Funds Hit With Losses For 2nd Month
TSP stock fund investors will see a reduction in their stock returns for the second month in a row as the fund reflect the overall direction of the stock market. Here are the results for the TSP funds for July 2007.
Riding the Stock Market Roller Coaster In Your TSP
The stock market has been volatile as new market highs are followed by dramatic drops in stock prices. Should you yield to your inner conscience and sell your TSP stock funds while you can still get out? Invest your money wisely and enjoy the ride.
Money, Justice, Lawyers and ‘Equal Access’
Who wins and who loses in our legal system seems to ebb and flow. The Equal Access to Justice Act created new winners and losers. But, as with many laws, new interpretations may change how the law is applied and create new winners and losers. Here is an example.
COLAs and the Federal Retiree: A Mid-Term Report
How much will the retirement check for federal retirees kick up in 2008? Here is a mid-term report on next year’s COLA.
Pay, Patriots, Romans and Americans: Does History Offer Any Value?
Federal military and civilian pay is going up and has been for a number of years. Next year’s pay raise is probably safe as well. The philosophy underlying the rapid rise in military and civilian pay has historical precedent. It may not be relevant to America–or perhaps we just don’t learn from history.
