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President's 2014 budget includes pay increase, but retirement changes loom large
Federal employees would see a slight pay bump next year under President Barack Obama's proposed budget for 2014. But at the same time, the White House budget outline proposes sweeping changes to federal employees' retirement benefits, including reductions to annual cost-of-living increases for retirees.
Tags: budget , 2014 budget , pay and benefits , pay , Barack Obama , retirement , COLA
Budget, sequestration and jobs
On this week's Capital Impact show, Bloomberg Government analysts discuss the latest jobs report and and how sequestration is affecting the economy of Fairfax County Virginia.
April 11, 2013
Tags: acquisition , budget , jobs report , Nela Richardson , Allen Scott , fairfax county , contracting , Lockheed Martin , Booz Allen Hamilton , Northrup Grumman , SAIC , sequestration , Lorraine Woellert , Bloomberg Government , Capital Impact
An agency-by-agency guide to Obama's 2014 budget
Tags: budget , 2014 budget , OMB , Barack Obama
Obama budget: Spending cuts, higher smokers' taxes
Tags: budget , deficit , sequestration , Barack Obama , Congress , chained CPI , Social Security , COLAs
Is your retirement check shrink-proof?
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wants to know: Would you be willing to accept a slightly smaller retirement benefit if it would help get the country out of debt? What if future cost-of-living adjustments to your civil service benefit were reduced by a mere 0.3 percent each year?
Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , budget , pay and benefits , chained CPI , retirement
Postal Service backs down on ending Saturday mail
The U.S. Postal Service has reversed its decision to end Saturday mail delivery service, saying Congress gave it no choice when it passed a 2013 appropriations bill last month that continued a ban on five-day delivery.
Tags: USPS , Congress , House , budget , mail delivery , Darrell Issa , Tom Carper
Changes to COLAs, retirement benefits included in Obama's 2014 budget
President Barack Obama is calling for the implementation of the "chained Consumer Price Index" to measure inflation. The change will reduce cost-of-living adjustments for retired federal employees and Social Security recipients. The 2014 budget is officially scheduled for release on Wednesday.
Tags: budget , 2014 budget , Barack Obama , Congress , chained CPI , COLA , retirement , Social Security
Federal budget cuts ground Air Force aircraft
Tags: budget , budget 2014 , Air Force , Congress , Barack Obama , DoD
Intel community seeks to protect workforce from sequestration's impact
James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, said the 17-agency community is trying not to repeat lessons of past cuts that hampered analytical capabilities. Clapper also issued a new IC-wide code of ethics and made a key change to the security clearance form.
Tags: workforce , James Clapper , ODNI , sequestration , budget , security clearances , ethics , Jason Miller
Three steps to make it out of the impenetrable (financial) fog
President Thomas Jefferson spoke of the impenetrable financial fog the federal government found itself under in 1802. Unfortunately, some things never change. Former Labor Department CFO Sam Mok says there are three steps the new director of the Office of Management and Budget should take to begin making a difference in this arena. Mok's column is part of Federal News Radio's special report, Rise of the Money People.
Tags: Sam Mok , financial management , Rise of the Money People , OMB , managment , budget , CFO
