Pay & Benefits

How to avoid bad advice or outright fraud when finding financial advice

An Army financial counselor will spend years in prison after his conviction on defrauding Gold Star Families. Military families should use care with adviser.

Defense News

New wrinkle on the notion of postponing your federal retirement

Retirement

TSP funds post mostly negative returns in April

TSP

Don’t look now, but your TSP is swooning

TSP

Lawmakers urging expanded IVF coverage for FEHB enrollees

Open Season

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Another column on retirement. This time, I’m joining you

Federal Report

Congress again ponders updating Social Security policy for non-eligible federal retirees

Retirement

Repeal or reform? House lawmakers weigh responses to WEP, GPO

Congress

Federal Employees Health Benefits program

Stricter FEHB requirements from OPM aim to root out ineligible members

Open Season

Since recent pay raise, fewer feds leaving TSA

Federal Newscast

One prescription for runaway Medicare costs

Pay & Benefits

Feds can still take administrative leave to get COVID-19 booster shots

The Safer Federal Workforce Task Force is sunsetting, but federal employees can still take four hours of paid administrative leave to get COVID-19 boosters.

Benefits

OPM retirement backlog continues improvement in processed claims for March

OPM also made improvements in the inventory backlog shrinking it by 2,786, for a total of 16,823 claims in March, the lowest it’s been since December 2023.

Retirement

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VA reviewing 4,000 positions at risk of pay downgrade

Pay

VA positions under review include a mix of white-collar General Schedule (GS) and blue-collar Wage Grade (WG) positions.