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Pay & Benefits
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VA's payout of millions of dollars to ineligible executives creates congressional concern and a need for answers.
May 17, 2024 -
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After signing a seven-year contract with TSA, AFGE leaders are now looking to get Title 5 rights cemented in law for tens of thousands of TSA employees.
May 16, 2024 -
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Do federal employees make more or less than people with similar jobs in the private sector? It's a question often asked, often answered, and never settled.
May 16, 2024 -
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Current law only allows for feds to lose their pensions for conviction on national security charges.
May 15, 2024 -
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The VA would receive additional pay flexibilities for its health care workforce, if a sweeping legislative makes it through Congress.
May 14, 2024 -
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Veterans with other-than honorable discharges have often faced difficulties in securing health care benefits. A new VA rule could change that.
May 14, 2024 -
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Federal retirement benefits require specialized advice to maximize. Feds planning to retire need a fiduciary who specializes in federal retirement.
May 14, 2024 -
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A watchdog report finds breakdowns in communications — and leadership — led to the VA paying nearly $11 million in bonuses to ineligible career executives.
May 10, 2024 -
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April’s backlog is 3,077 claims higher than the steady state goal of 13,000, but is the lowest backlog level OPM has seen since December of 2023.
May 10, 2024 -
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In the long run we're all dead. It's the 25 or 30 years before departure, the retirement years, that we've really got to worry about.
May 09, 2024 -
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The Thrift Savings Plan might be the easiest way to accumulate wealth ever devised. Still, people find ways to mess it up, or not get the most out of it.
May 09, 2024 -
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An Army financial counselor will spend years in prison after his conviction on defrauding Gold Star Families. Military families should use care with adviser.
May 03, 2024 -
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The government might employ some two million people, but no two federal employees are alike. That's why career and retirement planning can be complicated.
May 02, 2024 -
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In April, for the first time in 2024, Thrift Savings Plan funds posted all negative returns, with the exception of the government securities investment G fund.
May 01, 2024
