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Report: TRICARE changes should focus on maximizing value
A new Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis report says the Defense Department should look at improving value in military pay and benefits, not simply cutting. The report also calls for a BRAC-like commission to study service members' benefits.
Tags: DoD , pay and benefits , TRICARE , Todd Harrison , CSBA , supercommittee , budget
VFW urges members to fight military benefits changes
he Veterans of Foreign Wars on Tuesday urged its 2 million members to plead with Congress to spare military and veterans' benefits as a special deficit-cutting panel looks to slash $1.2 trillion from the federal budget.
Tags: military , DoD , supercommittee , Congress , VFW , pay and benefits ,
Who's that turkey in the mirror?
What do current federal workers and turkeys have in common with royal prisoners held after the French revolution. Key phrase: Impending cuts, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , retirement , Congress , supercommittee
OPM announces same-sex domestic partner health plans
Ed Zurndorfer, a registered employee benefits consultant, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss OPM's plan to allow domestic partners of federal employees to be added to federal health plans.
Tags: Federal Drive , pay and benefits , FEHBP , healthcare , Ed Zurndorfer , Tom Temin , Amy Morris , domestic partnerships
Finding feds' G-spot
For many federal workers there is one place you don't go, don't touch. It's their G-spot which, in this case, refers to the giant Group Plan, the FEHBP, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. So does the G-spot bring you pleasure or pain?
Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , FEHBP , healthcare , pay and benefits ,
Seniors carrying sex-crazed colleagues?
Is it fair that a healthy young couple must pay the same health premiums as an older family with lots of kids and major medical issues, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wonders. For that matter, should a healthy elderly couple have to subsidize two sex-crazed younger workers?
Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , healthcare , FEHBP
Medicare: To B or Not To B — that is the question!
If William Shakespeare were alive today, and living in America, he would probably be retired or about to retire and facing the question of whether to purchase Medicare Part B or not, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. As in to be or not to be...
Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , healthcare , Medicare , Medicare part B , FEHBP , David Snell
Best health plan for the 'average' person
If you are a 5-foot-9-inch tall, 191 pound federal male, or a 5-foot-3-inch tall 163 pound G-woman, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey's column is for you. Otherwise read it at your own risk.
Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , healthcare , premiums , pay and benefits , FEHBP
Analysis: More to choosing a federal health plan than premiums
Ed Zurndorfer, a registered employee benefits consultant, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris for his perspective on what the changes mean for feds and what they should keep in mind when planning their finances for the coming year.
Tags: Federal Drive , pay and benefits , FEHBP , healthcare , Ed Zurndorfer ,
Your new BFF, gym buddy and diet coach!
Is your health plan about to become your new Best Friend Forever? Your exercise enabler, your gym partner? It could all happen in January thanks to new affinity partnership programs that will be launched by a federal health plan near you, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Tags: Mike Causey , FEHBP , Federal Report , pay and benefits , health plans
