Pay & Benefits

Proposed 2% federal pay raise gets support in 2025 defense authorization bill

The Senate committee’s version of the 2025 NDAA, advanced last week, supported a 2% federal pay raise for civilian feds and a 4.5% raise for military…

Pay

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Centralized FEHB database key to OPM cost savings, GAO says

Open Season

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Some feds continue to see fraudulent FSAFEDS deductions

Benefits

Senate GOP blocks bill to expand IVF access as advocates call for better FEHB coverage

Congress

FILE - This Wednesday, April 14, 2016, file photo, shows a push-button landline telephone, in Whitefield, Maine. According to a U.S. government survey released Thursday, May 4, 2017, homes and apartments with only cellphone service exceeded 50 percent for the first time, reaching 50.8 percent for the last six months of 2016. On the flip side, 45.9 percent of U.S. households still have landline phones, including newer internet-based services common with cable TV and internet packages, while the remaining households have no phone service at all. More than 39 percent of U.S. households have both landline and cellphone service. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Rumors targeting Social Security recipients cause inundation of SSA phone lines

Federal Newscast

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Policy riders to watch as House appropriators mark up 2025 spending bills

Budget

NIST’s new project for securing public benefits programs

Federal Newscast

OPM retirement claims backlog at lowest level since May 2016

Retirement

Why it pays to think twice about paying off that mortgage before retirement

Retirement

Difficult location choices for military retirees

Retirement

TSP funds make a healthy jump in May

TSP

OPM pauses new FSAFEDS enrollments after fraud surge

Hundreds of feds with FSAs have seen fraudulent activity on their accounts. OPM has since paused all new enrollments to try to prevent further fraud in…

Benefits

How to maximize your TSP

How can you maximize every bit of your Thrift Savings Plan?

Federal Insights

llinois Rep. Mike Bost argues legislation while on the House floor during session at the state Capitol in Springfield Ill.

Scrutiny intensifies regarding VA ‘bonus blunder’

Federal Newscast

House lawmakers are demanding answers from VA officials, after they approved nearly $11 million in bonuses to ineligible career senior executives.