Senate passes $3B VA supplemental funding bill, averting ...
WEB1 day ago · 2 min read. The Senate passed a $3 billion supplemental funding bill, allowing the Department of Veterans Affairs to keep making veterans’ benefits payments without delay. The Senate unanimously passed the supplemental funding bill in a voice vote Thursday. This bill now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
Federal benefits are major draw to service for younger employees
WEB2 days ago · Federal benefits for health and retirement are a major recruitment and retention influence for employees, especially for early-career talent.. Women as well as individuals in younger generations ranked the importance of federal benefits more highly than older or male employees, according to the results of the 2023 Federal Employee …
Senators push for fix to potential Foreign Service pay cut
WEB1 day ago · Michele Sandiford. September 19, 2024 8:31 am. < a min read. Senators are urging their colleagues to prevent a 22% pay cut for federal employees working overseas. Congress has until the end of the month to reauthorize Overseas Comparability Pay. Those funds ensure Foreign Service officers and other feds abroad get paid close to what …
You can almost taste the repeal of these social security ...
WEB1 day ago · Tom Temin And by the way, is this only for SERS employees, the older retirees?. John Hatton Yes, it applies.The CSRS retiree is because when you are covered by CSRS, you weren’t paying into Social Security and you earned a pension for that CSRS and you might have earned a social care benefit through other private sector …
Schedule F would make agencies ‘hard-pressed’ to meet ...
WEB3 days ago · Schedule F would make agencies ‘hard-pressed’ to meet national security threats. Former DHS and DoD officials said possible efforts to reimplement Schedule F would divert resources, stagnate progress and ultimately harm national security. A possible return of the controversial Schedule F policy from the Trump administration would not …
Federal government saw less attrition in fiscal 2023
WEB4 days ago · September 16, 2024 4:21 pm. < a min read. The government saw less staff attrition in fiscal 2023, but some demographic groups are still showing higher rates of quitting than others. Women and young people chose to leave their federal jobs at higher-than-average rates in 2023. The data analysis from the Partnership for Public Service …
The ticking sound you hear is the final days of the fiscal year
WEB4 days ago · The ticking sound you hear is the final days of the fiscal year. "Every September, we have to do this dance where we figure out if the government will stay funded going into the new fiscal year," Loren Duggan said. Tom Temin @tteminWFED. September 16, 2024 12:51 pm. 9 min read.