New Legislation Reflects Distrust of Federal Bureaucracy
The Senate passed the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act which the author says appears to indicate a lack of trust in the federal government.
Current news and events impacting the federal workforce, both current federal employees and federal retirees.
The Senate passed the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act which the author says appears to indicate a lack of trust in the federal government.
OPM has released 2016 locality pay area definitions including new locality pay areas and counties impacted by changes to existing locality pay areas.
An attorney with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was caught playing fast and loose with the facts in order to convince a bank to approve a short sale on her house.
A federal annuitant finds he cannot change his survivor annuity selection after his retirement date.
Human resources expert and long-time federal employee Tim Dirks has been named as the interim president of the Senior Executives Association.
The 2015 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey results were recently released by the Office of Personnel Management. The author notes that agency leaders take the survey results seriously, even if employees find it hard to draw relationships between the survey results and agency responses. He highlights the highest and lowest positive scores across the six main categories of questions from the survey.
The author says that civil servants who refuse to answer questions when called to testify before the House of Representatives or the Senate are not exercising civil service protections; they are exercising a Constitutional right guaranteed to everyone.
Expanded eligibility has been announced for applying for coverage under the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP). The change will be effective on November 30th.
All TSP funds had positive returns in October, and the C fund had its best single month return in four years.
Following an outcry by many groups, new legislation would reduce the premium increase facing Medicare Part B participants in 2016. However, some will benefit and some will not. The author explains who comes out on top and who doesn’t under the new law.