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The Honoring Our PACT Act would expand disability compensation and health care benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances during their military service.
The key ingredient in any successful business is a talented and productive workforce. The talent a company acquires and retains is vital to the company’s success. Employees are rethinking their professional values and are faced with uncertainties regarding their personal health, wellbeing and job stability.
When Social Security was launched in 1935, the average life expectancy for men was 59.9 years and 63.9 for women. Full benefits started at 65, so do the math! It sounded almost like a safe, government-guaranteed Ponzi Scheme, minus the scheme part.
Along with challenges logging in to TSP’s updated system, an exclusive Federal News Network survey shows many participants are frustrated with the new layout.
Automation can help VA process survivors claims when a veteran passes away, which currently takes more than two months on average.
Participants in the Federal Thrift Savings Plan will soon be able to put a sizeable chunk of their accounts into 5,000 new funds, including those offered by 300 mutual fund families like Fidelity, T.Rowe Price and Vanguard.
When Congress created the Federal Employee Retirement System in the ‘80s, one of the most notable changes was that future retirees would get smaller cost of living adjustments than participants in the old Civil Service Retirement System. CSRS and Social Security beneficiaries get COLAs that match inflation; FERS retirees get a smaller adjustment. That hasn’t been a big deal over the past decade of low inflation, but obviously circumstances have changed.
In today's Federal Newscast, a bill passes the House giving federal workers who get injured on the job better access to workers' compensation.
The Office of Personnel Management reported May’s average monthly processing time for retirement claims was up from April and higher than in May 2021.
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board adds customer service representatives to help participants who are frustrated with new account interface.
The June 1 rollout of the TSP’s new My Account system requires all participants to set up a new login system for their personal account. Lots of folks having trouble with the new system contacted Federal News Network to share their stories.
Congress is concerned inflation rates may outpace the current pay increase.
Food insecurity affected one in five military families as of 2021 — up from one in eight in 2019 — according to the Military Family Advisory Network.
The IRS outlined “pass-through” provisions of its 2022 National Agreement with the National Treasury Employees Union, which apply to agency managers and non-bargaining unit employees.