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Is the best day to retire for a CSRS enrollee different than FERS?
Both CSRS and FERS employees need to retire before the end of the leave year to be paid for all their accumulated leave.
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Lifestyle
Medical care, child care: How shutdown could affect military families
Inpatient care and acute and emergency outpatient care in DoD medical facilities would be immune from a shutdown.
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GAO union employees keep flexible work options in new contract
Other agencies have been pressured to increase in-person attendance in recent months.
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Will I get paid for all the annual leave I have accrued at retirement?
"Use or lose" annual leave is the amount of accrued annual leave that is in excess of the employee's maximum annual leave limitation for carry over.
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Biden creates New Deal-style American Climate Corps for job training
The program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels.
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Marine veteran Ray Epps pleads guilty to Capitol riot charge
Ray Epps, who claimed in a lawsuit that Fox News made him a scapegoat for the Capitol riot, was charged with disorderly conduct on restricted grounds.
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Would federal retirement services continue during government shutdown?
Here's what you need to know if you're planning to retire this year while the 2024 funding situation is still uncertain.
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Biden beefs up government worker safeguards as Republicans bash feds
Effort includes clarifications that federal employees can’t lose certain civil service protections unless they give them up voluntarily.
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Can I keep my Tricare insurance if I buy back military service time?
Tricare is a health care program of the United States Department of Defense Military Health System.
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Is the truth out there? NASA wants to help build public trust on UFOs
The agency could play a major role in data collection and further research objects of unknown origins in Earth’s atmosphere.
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House Republicans demand data on VA abortion procedures
Lawmakers want more information on how many procedures have been performed and how they were justified.
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VA won’t restart health records overhaul until next summer, if at all
Multiple House lawmakers expressed doubt that the expensive vets records project can be saved.
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Can age affect Federal Employees Retirement System disability benefit?
FERS applicants are eligible as long as they have at least 18 months of credible service with the federal government.
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Opinions
Vets don’t deserve to be preyed upon by unaccredited ‘claims coaches’
Veterans should have a choice in how they pursue benefits, but also protection from those who will take advantage of the VA disability system.
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US ambassador visits Marine veteran jailed in Russia for espionage
Paul Whelan, a corporate security director and Marine veteran, was detained in Moscow in 2018 and convicted in 2020.
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Mitt Romney to retire, make way for a ‘new generation of leaders’
Romney in 2020 became the first senator in U.S. history to vote to convict a president from their own party in an impeachment trial.
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Federal Long Term Care insurance premiums to increase in 2024
It’s not the first time rates have increased under the program, which for several years has been the subject of Congressional inquiry.
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