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  • OPM speeds up retirement claims processing, but backlog grows
  • Senators call on OMB to resolve pension delays
  • Bill would prohibit step increases for rest of year
  • CBO: Feds out-earn civilians; report fuels push for extended pay freeze
  • GAO: Outdated technology slows OPM retirement process
  • Revised military pension rules benefit top-level officers
  • Senators propose civilian pay freeze through 2014
  • Feds earn 16% more than private sector, nonpartisan report shows
  • House to vote Wednesday on bill to extend pay freeze for a third year
  • Rep. Ross' goal: Scrap defined benefit pensions for feds
  • Pentagon plans for five years of reduced raises for civilian employees
  • Details coming soon on TSP's planned Roth fund
  • Fewer feds tax delinquent
  • Postal union talks reach impasse, arbitration likely
  • OPM details fixes for pension check delays
  • OPM outlines planned fixes to pension delays
  • Proposed pay raise draws ire from all sides
  • Obama to propose 0.5% pay raise for 2013
  • New performance system could lead to General Schedule overhaul
  • Federal workers' pay gains slowest in 10 years
  • Medical doctors, researchers top list of highest-paid feds
  • TSA, union talks stall over employee grievances
  • Agencies notifying employees of possible shutdown
  • Lawmakers decry anti-fed measures in tax cut bill
  • Lawmakers likely to expand cap on contractor pay
  • Retirements surge 24% over last year
  • New House Republican bill takes aim at fed pensions, pay
  • Mass transit benefit set to expire Jan. 1
  • IG: Army retaliated against war-wounded whistle-blower
  • Another pay freeze?
  • Experts: DoD could slash 150K jobs
  • GOP senators: Extend fed pay freeze to fund payroll tax cut
  • House approves workers' comp reforms
  • Extended pay freeze, layoffs likely
  • 38 postal execs earn more than Cabinet members
  • Pension delays get much worse
  • OPM: Problem of late pension payments getting worse
  • Postal Service to resume pension payments
  • OPM to hire more staff to process pensions
  • More health plans offering online patient records
  • Lack of data hinders pay gap comparison
  • Interim pensions for new retirees more accurate, OPM says
  • Defense eyes pass-fail job evals
  • Pay gap grows in private sector's favor, council says
  • DoD task force: Rate civilian employees on pass-fail basis
  • Feds flee costliest health plans
  • Issa proposes replacing FERS pensions with TSP-type plan
  • Agency outside GS system freezes pay
  • Retirees to receive COLAs for first time in 2 years
  • Lawmakers propose sharp cuts in federal pay, benefits
  • Fed pensions underfunded by $673B
  • Senior Executive Service to get standard evaluations
  • Budget cuts pare back training for law enforcement
  • Feds in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan lose some benefits
  • Job duties increasingly not linked to grade, pay
  • Health insurance premium hikes ease
  • Furloughed FAA employees to receive back pay
  • Contractor execs paid 64% more than feds
  • Expanded family leave takes effect Oct. 31
  • USPS wants single health plan for employees, retirees
  • Survey: Contractor execs paid 70 percent more than fed execs
  • Growth in health premiums slows dramatically
  • Obama's plan for your pension
  • Employee satisfaction dips in key areas
  • 45,000 feds sign up for long-term care benefit
  • Employee satisfaction dips in key areas
  • White House plan calls for cuts in employee benefits
  • Contract labor: Pay, benefits often double that of feds
  • Board approves budget boost for TSP for fiscal 2012
  • Study: Contractors paid far more than feds for comparable work
  • Lawmakers have better benefits than feds
  • Feds plan their exits: Interest surges in retirement seminars
  • Obama presses Congress to pass FAA bill
  • Health-care fraud prosecutions on pace to rise 85 percent
  • USPS health, retirement plan proposal met with skepticism
  • Commerce offers buyouts, early outs
  • Thousands of TSP participants move to safety of G Fund
  • GAO offers buyouts, early retirement
  • Postal officials manipulated employees' performance ratings, IG finds
  • USPS aims to cut a third of workforce
  • Education buyouts, early outs targeted at GS-12s and higher
  • No pay, benefits cuts — for now
  • Deal struck to end FAA furlough
  • GSA delays plan to charge employees thousands in parking costs
  • Army to cut 8,741 civilian employees
  • Dispute over FAA halts more than 250 airport projects
  • Obama tells Congress to end recess, fund FAA
  • Furloughs for 4,000 FAA employees to extend into September
  • Federal pay, benefits cuts left out of debt deal, sources say
  • Obama: Boehner debt plan has ‘no chance' of becoming law
  • Administration presses lawmakers to resolve FAA impasse
  • OPM aims to expand child care subsidies
  • OPM opposes Republican workers' comp plan
  • GSA employees to pay thousands for parking starting August
  • FAA furloughs continue, projects halted by congressional impasse
  • Pay, benefits cuts coming
  • Report on performance management reforms due in September
  • Gage: Cuts to federal pay seen as likely
  • Bipartisan Gang of Six endorses lower COLAs for federal retirees
  • Federal workers more likely to die than lose jobs
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