Federal News
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 ...
OPM rule removes Social Security numbers from mailed documents
The Office of Personnel Management issued a final rule Friday that would cull Social Security numbers from any mailed document in an ...
House panel advances bills to improve FEHBP oversight
A 2022 Government Accountability Office report estimated that ineligible family members covered through the federal government’s employer-sponsored health care program ...
OPM cuts federal retirement backlog as it works through spring surge
The federal government again processed a high number of retirement applications last month, even though its overall pace slowed ...
The TSP savings rate is up, but so are the number of TSP loans
Federal employees do a great job saving for retirement in the Thrift Savings Plan, and the numbers prove it ...
OPM slices record retirement processing time in February
The Office of Personnel Management set a new record for how swiftly it processes departing federal employees’ retirement claims last ...
Here’s how to find the information you need when planning for retirement
Whether past or present, much of the retirement information that we have is learned from conversations that are passed around ...