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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Congress should starting working now on a budget deal for the beginning of fiscal 2016. A deal is likely to be at the top of the list of priorities when Congress comes back Sept.8. Jessica Klement, legislative director of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees association, tells In Depth with Francis Rose, she's already anticipating the challenges when Congress comes back.
August 18, 2015 With two months to go in the COLA countdown for January 2016, it appears unlikely retirees will get any adjustment next year. The CPI-W will be announced later this month, but all indications say there won't be a COLA in January, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.
August 10, 2015-
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Senate leaders agreed in principle to a six-year highway transportation fund bill that doesn’t try to raise money by changing the way the interest rate on the G-Fund is calculated. But Democrats stopped the bill from moving to a full vote because they wanted more time to read the entire bill.
July 21, 2015 -
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The Senate is working on a long-term highway spending bill that taps billions of dollars from the Thrift Savings Plan to help pay for it. House budget writers say the G-fund is just too good of a deal and they want to base the fund's interest rate on a three month average instead of the current four-year average. Kim Weaver of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board says that would make the G-fund virtually worthless for TSP participants. Jessica Klement is legislative director of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose that NARFE wants Congress to come up with another solution.
July 21, 2015 -
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The congressional stalemate over funding a long-term highway bill is reviving fears that lawmakers could raid the Thrift Savings Plan. House Republicans have proposed cutting the G Fund's interest rate to free up $32 billion over ten years.
July 14, 2015 -
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We know a little more now about both cyber breaches at the Office of Personnel Management. But there are still plenty of questions. David Snell is the director of the federal benefits service department at the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. He testified before the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittees on Research and Technology and Oversight last week. He tells In Depth guest host Jared Serbu that he's worried not just about the breaches themselves, but the lack of communication between OPM and the federal workforce since then.
July 13, 2015 -
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The federal government isn’t just setting up credit monitoring services for the millions of federal workers affected by the Office of Personnel Management cyber breaches. OPM is also pursuing giving all federal employees some type of credit monitoring
July 10, 2015 -
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Federal News Radio asked readers how they rated the performance of the Office of Personnel Management in communicating information about the recent data breaches. An overwhelming number rated the information as \"poor\" and many still didn\'t understand what happened or what they should do next.
June 18, 2015 -
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House Republicans have dealt a blow to a proposed rule that advocates say would help federal employees and retirees avoid costly investment mistakes.
June 18, 2015 -
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While the number of people in Congress calling for the OPM director to resign grows, the White House is voicing support for Katherine Archuleta. NTEU and NARFE have sent letters to OPM asking for more details on the second breach.
June 18, 2015 -
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Richard Thissen, president of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, wrote to Office of Personnel Management director Katherine Archuleta that federal employees are still waiting for phased retirement at their agencies.
June 04, 2015 -
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Federal employees who get injured on the job may not be able to tap into workers compensation benefits anymore when they reach retirement age. The Labor Department has a proposal to reform the 99-year-old Federal Employees Compensation Act. The department says it encourages disabled employees to rely on other savings instead. It also cuts extra compensation employees with dependents now get. But some employees\' unions say FECA reform doesn\'t consider the disadvantages workers with disabilities already have. Jessica Klement, legislative director at the National Active and Retired Federal Employees association, tells In Depth with Francis Rose about NARFE\'s concerns.
June 02, 2015 -
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Both the House and Senate's budget plans for fiscal 2016 aim to reduce the federal deficit. And to help do that, both plans include provisions to increase federal employee pension contributions. Jessica Klement is Legislative Director of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. On In Depth with Francis Rose, NARFE said those and other provisions tantamount to a pay cut for federal employees.
March 31, 2015
