Expanded leave access for veteran feds makes it into defense policy bill
Currently, in order to gain access to 12 weeks of paid parental leave—a benefit itself adopted via the 2020 NDAA—or paid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, a…
Currently, in order to gain access to 12 weeks of paid parental leave—a benefit itself adopted via the 2020 NDAA—or paid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, a…
What is public is the number of TSP millionaires: 94,873. It may also surprise you that the majority of the TSP’s 6,887,247 participants have less than a $50,000 account balance…
For the third time this year, the federal government’s backlog of pending retirement claims filed by departing federal workers hit a six-year low, as the Office of Personnel Management continues…
Twenty federal agencies failed to meet the Biden administration’s deadline for implementing the most advanced cyber event logging requirements across their systems, with most agencies failing to implement even basic…
Each of the portfolios in the federal government’s 401(k)-style retirement savings finished November in the black, snapping a three-month streak in which most Thrift Savings Plan funds lost value.
Federal employees can discuss the Israel-Hamas war in the workplace and can even express their opinions on it, according to new guidance from the independent agency that oversees the law…
There are renewed signs of life for congressional efforts to overhaul a pair of much-maligned Social Security policies that cut some public workers’ retirement benefits. But in a year of…
There’s a renewed push to restore full Social Security benefits to two million retirees, by passing the Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 (H.R. 82/S. 597).
These limits define the contributions that can be made to defined contribution accounts like the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) for the calendar year. Please note, this is a personal limit…
This is the first week of the open season period, but Dec. 11 will be here before you know it and Thanksgiving officially starts the busy holiday season. What are…