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Trump administration begins cracking down on federal employees’ use of leave for voting
With some key primary elections at the state level occurring in the coming weeks, the Trump administration has begun notifying ...
House Bill Seeks Increased Oversight of Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives aims to strengthen oversight of the federal government’s retirement savings plan ...
NARFE Urges SSA to Extend Retroactivity for WEP/GPO Repeal
NARFE will continue to follow this issue and provide updated information as it is available on our website. ...
DOGE could scrap identity protections for those impacted by OPM breach, senator warns
Sen. Mark Warner urged OPM’s acting director to ensure identity protection services continue for the more than 21 million individuals ...
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch and Ranking Member Steny Hoyer Mobilize to Combat Attacks on Federal Workers Included in Republicans’ Extreme Budget Bill
The roundtable follows a full Committee markup of the Reconciliation bill in which Oversight Committee Democrats offered twenty-five amendments that would add ...
House Republicans’ pension changes will save nearly $51B, CBO says
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s proposal to overhaul the federal government’s pension benefit system would save nearly $51 ...
OPM wants federal retirement processing fully digitized in three weeks’ time
Agencies are facing a tight timeline to move to a paperless federal retirement process, as the Office of Personnel Management ...
CBO – Reconciliation Recommendations of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
H. Con. Res. 14, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2025, instructed the House Committee on Oversight ...
Act Now: Protect Earned Federal Retirement and Health Benefits from Budget Cuts
In the “committee print” language, they cut earned federal retirement and health benefits and disincentivize the accrual and assertion of ...
OPM touts ‘fully paperless’ retirement application, though concerns remain
Sources warn that the Trump administration has overstated both DOGE’s role in developing online retirement applications and its potential impact ...