Pay & Benefits

  • The bill would go into effect for the first fiscal year after its passage and would terminate when the Office of Management and Budget determines that there is no longer an annual federal budget deficit.

    May 06, 2011
  • Taking a buyout, says financial planner Arthur Stein, will make sense for some but not for others. He explains how to tell which camp you might be in.

    May 06, 2011
  • The Office of Personnel Management launches a new portal to help managers improve how they bring new employees into the government. USAJobsrecruit.gov is available for all feds to share best practices, find tools and solve challenges as Federal Service Ambassadors.

    May 06, 2011
  • The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Thursday he will include language implementing the Defense Department\'s request to increase insurance fees for military retirees. That position is at odds with the panel\'s subcommittee on military personnel, which on Wednesday unanimously approved language which would prohibit the increase.

    May 06, 2011
  • Even the most rational, self-controlled federal and postal workers sometimes have nightmares about their jobs. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says chief among them is the fear that Uncle Sam is going to change the rules, drastically reducing lifetime retirement payments.

    May 06, 2011
  • The take down of terrorist Osama bin Laden was a textbook operation that worked because of years of intelligence analysis, police work and planning. But, asks Senior Correspondent Mike Causey, what if it had been attempted while the government was in a shutdown mode running on half power?

    May 05, 2011
  • Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry discusses the work of federal employees as part of Public Service Recognition Week. May 4, 2011

    May 04, 2011
  • J. David Cox AFGE National Secretary-Treasurer & Jane Nygaard AFGE 8th District National Vice President & Marilyn Park AFGE Legislative Representative

    May 04, 2011
  • OPM Director Berry said agencies are commenting on the rules to implement President Obama\'s executive order to bring college graduates more easily into the government. Berry also wants Congress to change the law so feds who want to retire can phase in their exit and act as mentors.

    May 04, 2011
  • Public Service Recognition Week is seen by many as a feds-celebrating-feds event, but this time around Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says everybody in the country has something to celebrate.

    May 04, 2011
  • Debbie Filippi with the Interagency Program Office joins host John Gilroy to talk about pilot programs that allow DoD and the VA to share medical information. May 3, 2011

    May 03, 2011
  • Just when you thought the pay debate was over, it\'s back with a USA Today article that lays out the high-paying federal jobs.

    May 03, 2011
  • Feds who make more than $180,000 a year make up less than one percent of the federal workforce. Leading that pack are doctors, lawyers and dentists. Doctors held roughly eight out of 10 of the top-salaried jobs.

    May 03, 2011
  • Millions of Americans went to bed Sunday night as disgruntled taxpayers but woke up Monday morning as jubilant, cheering parts of the federal family team. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey notes what a difference a day makes!

    May 03, 2011