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Payroll tax negotiations reopen: Are feds' pay and benefits safe?

Negotiations to renew a payroll tax cut for 160 million workers and jobless benefits for millions more kicked off on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, with both sides optimistic of an agreement despite last year's bitter battles over President Barack Obama's jobs proposals.

Tags: Congress , Barack Obama , John Boehner , Mitch McConnell , tax , Senate , House , budget , social security tax cut ,

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NARFE concerned with provisions in House payroll tax cut bill

Julie Tagen, legislative director for the National Association of Active and Retired Federal Employees, told Federal News Radio that certain provisions in the bill would affect federal employees.

Tags: Julie Tagen , NARFE , payroll tax cut , Congress , House , Senate , retirement , FERS , CSRS

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Inflation down but COLA is steady

Inflation dropped last month but that won't have any impact on the 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment coming to retired feds in a couple of weeks. But some will get more than others.

Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , retirement , pay and benefits , benefits , COLA ,

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Finally, some bipartisanship _ oops, nevermind

Tags: Congress , House , Senate , Mitch McConnell , John Boehner , tax cut , Scott Brown , Tom Read , payroll tax cut

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Analysis: Dems hope for campaign edge on tax issue

Tags: Congress , House , Senate , payroll tax cut , Charles Schumer , Rick Santorum , Michele Bachmann , Eric Cantor

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The COLA condundrum: Recent retired feds won't see increase

Tammy Flanagan, senior benefits director at the National Institute of Transition Planning, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what federal employees and retirees need to know about the COLA increase.

Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , Tammy Flanagan , NITP , retirement , pay and benefits , COLA

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Congress sputters on deficit cuts, spending bills

Tags: Patty Murray , Hal Rogers , John Boehner , super committee , Congress , House Appropriations Committee , budget 2012 ,

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Does it pay to work?

Are you better off financially slogging it to work or sleeping in five days a week. Some people say that all things considered they would be better off as a retiree than as an office serf. So do the math, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

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How will COLA affect feds who aren't retired?

Tammy Flanagan is the senior benefits director at the National Institute of Transition Planning.

Tags: Tammy Flanagan , National Institute of Transition Planning , pay and benefits , retirement , SSA , COLA , In Depth

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Money savings in tax cut extension

The extension of the tax cuts signed into law recently by President Obama include a few money-savings for voters.

Tags: tax cut , payroll tax , Energy , tax credit , stimulus , Recovery Act , President Obama , Nathan Hager , wtop saves you money

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