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

The Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset have both been around for decades. They reduce or rule out Social Security benefits for some.

Retirement

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

Congress

May We Say Thank You 2024

Campaigns

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Federal employee groups want to know why civilians can’t get the same raise as military members this year

Federal Newscast

As agencies face budget uncertainty, Democrats propose a 7.4% pay raise for feds

Pay

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Heading into 2024, OPM ‘fundamentally rethinking’ federal hiring

Hiring/Retention

Telework changes, hiring reforms of 2023 charting a course into the new year

Workforce

After years of delays, the TSP’s I fund will track a new index starting in 2024

TSP

Stethoscope and money on wooden table representing health care, FEHB plans.

The government could still close, but your health insurance will march on

Open Season

Many federal retirees to receive 3.2% in 2024 COLA, but not everyone gets the same adjustment

Retirement

Federal employees will pay 7.7% more toward health premiums in 2024

Open Season

Long-term care insurance information, form and stethoscope.

Federal long term care insurance premiums to increase by as much as 86%, data shows

It’s the first time in seven years that the roughly 267,000 FLTCIP enrollees, who are civilian federal employees and military members, will see a premium…

Benefits

FILE - The U.S. Capitol dome in Washington, Aug. 12, 2022. The Democratic-led House passed a short-term spending bill on Friday that finances the federal government through mid-December and provides another infusion of military and economic aid to Ukraine as lawmakers acted to avert a partial government shutdown set to begin after midnight. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Warnings have begun about ramifications of government shutdown

In today’s Federal Newscast: The alarm bells are ringing almost everywhere about the negative impacts of a government shutdown. The Labor Department’s…

Federal Newscast

After a summer break, Congress has a lot on its plate this fall

Congress

The House and Senate appropriations packages are far from the only priority for Congress this fall — and many of the other to-do items have direct impacts for federal employees.