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 Federal Retirement

  1. The White House on Friday ordered agencies to start studying ways to narrow the pay gap between men and women in the federal government. JEWEL SAMAD/Jewel Samad / AFP

    Obama orders gender pay gap study

    The White House on Friday ordered agencies to start studying ways to narrow the pay gap between men and women in the federal government.

    • May. 10, 2013
  2. Patrick McFarland, Office of Personnel Management inspector general, left, and Kenneth Zawodny, OPM associate director of retirement services, testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on federal workforce. OPM is failing to chase down suspected pension fraud in its quest to speed up pension processing, McFarlan said Thursday. Thomas Brown / Staff

    IG frustrated by OPM's handling of improper payments to dead retirees

    The Office of Personnel Management is failing to chase down suspected pension fraud in its quest to speed up pension processing, the agency's inspector general testified Thursday.

    • May. 9, 2013

  3. As OT cuts loom, OPM processes 13K pensions

    The Office of Personnel Management in April processed its third-highest number of federal pension claims.

    • May. 6, 2013
  4. Associate Director of Retirement Services Ken Zawodny said the steep budget cuts forced OPM to suspend overtime for employees in his division. Office of Personnel Management

    Sequester forces OPM to cut pension overtime

    The Office of Personnel Management announced Monday it has suspended all overtime for its employees working on processing federal retirees' pensions.

    • Apr. 29, 2013
  5. Former Sen. Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles recommended in a new report that federal employee pension contribution rates gradually rise so that current employees eventually pay one-quarter of the cost and new workers pay one-half. Mark Wilson / Getty Images

    Simpson, Bowles renew call for cuts in employee benefits

    The former leaders of a White House deficit reduction commission are again urging dramatic cuts to federal employee benefit programs, with a goal of saving tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

    • Apr. 19, 2013

  6. Republicans praise Obama’s proposal to adopt ‘chained CPI’

    The White House’s inclusion of the so-called chained CPI, or consumer price index, in its fiscal 2014 budget gave House Republicans ammunition Thursday as they called for adopting a less-generous measure of inflation.

    • Apr. 18, 2013
  7. President Obama's budget has drawn fire from a number of groups representing federal workers and retirees. AFP

    Obama budget calls for 1% raise, but higher pension contributions

    Commenting on how the White House’s proposed 2014 budget treats federal pay and benefits, William Dougan, head of the National Federation of Federal Employees, said: “With friends like these, who needs enemies?”

    • Apr. 15, 2013
  8. Copies of the Obama Administration's proposed FY 2014 federal budget are on display before going on sale at the Government Printing Office Book Store on April 10 in Washington. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

    Obama budget proposes hike in pension contributions for feds

    President Obama’s budget plan for 2014 proposes increasing the retirement contributions for federal employees hired before 2013 by 1.2 percentage points, phased in over three years, as part of his fiscal 2014 budget.

    • Apr. 10, 2013
  9. Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry Alex Wong / Getty Images

    Retirement numbers continue outpacing projections

    More than 10,000 federal employees submitted retirement claims in March — more than twice as many as the government expected.

    • Apr. 5, 2013
  10. The White House next week is expected to propose $35 billion in cuts to federal retirement benefits and reductions in retirees' future pension increases as part of the fiscal 2014 budget. AFP

    Obama to propose cuts in retirement benefits

    The White House on Wednesday will propose $35 billion in cuts to federal retirement benefits and reductions in retirees’ future pension increases as part of the fiscal 2014 budget.

    • Apr. 5, 2013
  11. Tom McKinney, a 20-year NARFE member who has been raising the alarm about the unfunded liability in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, will be resigning from the organization. Staff

    Prominent NARFE member quits over pension concerns

    Retired Army auditor Tom McKinney thinks a financial bomb is ticking in the federal employee pension system. And after waging an unsuccessful six-year campaign to get the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association to take on what he thinks is a serious problem, McKinney — a 20-year NARFE member and one of the group’s chapter presidents in Dunwoody, Ga. — on Wednesday announced his resignation from the organization.

    • Apr. 5, 2013

  12. Man sentenced for embezzling from SSA employees association

    A retired Social Security Administration manager was sentenced to 15 months in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $400,000 from an SSA employees association.

    • Apr. 3, 2013
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