Federal News
Does the Hatch Act apply to you? Election season do’s and don’ts
With the fall season comes football, pumpkin-flavored everything and Election Day. Federal employees may be tempted to get involved by ...
Some feds continue to see fraudulent FSAFEDS deductions
Some employees have continued to see fraudulent deductions from their Federal Flexible Spending Accounts, weeks after FSAFEDS fraud was first ...
Senate plans swift action on IVF bill containing new requirements for FEHBP
On Monday, Sens. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., introduced the Right to IVF Act, a ...
OPM pauses new FSAFEDS enrollments after fraud surge
The Office of Personnel Management has temporarily paused all new enrollments in FSAFEDS — the government’s flexible spending account program — after ...
L Funds: A Love Affair
And so it goes for federal employees and the Thrift Savings Plan version, the Lifecycle (L) Fund family, which became ...
2015 OPM data breach claims checks still trickling in
Federal employees should look for a check in the mail if they were impacted by the 2015 data breach at ...
OPM urged to commit to protecting IVF in federal health insurance
The Biden administration is again putting pressure on the federal-employee health care system to protect and expand coverage for infertility treatments as reproductive care ...
Fraudsters targeting federal government employees’ savings accounts
Hackers are using data they’ve discovered to open fraudulent savings accounts in the name of federal employees and get paid ...
Lawmakers urging expanded IVF coverage for FEHB enrollees
Enrollees in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program just began seeing better coverage of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) for the ...
OPM cracks down on who’s eligible for federal health benefits
The Office of Personnel Management, the agency that acts as the HR department for the federal government, is setting new ...