The Office of Personnel management issued a final rule that will allow recognizing certain Federal civilian employees who die of injuries incurred in connection with their employment for their duty and sacrifice. Under the Act, Executive agencies, the United States Postal Service, and the Postal Regulatory Commission may furnish flags to the beneficiaries of employees […]
Washington, DC –Today, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued the final regulations on Phased Retirement. Phased Retirement is a human resources tool that allows full-time employees to work part-time schedules while beginning to draw retirement benefits. “Phased Retirement offers an innovative alternative to traditional retirement for the 21st century workforce,” said OPM Director […]
The common mistake made by Federal and Postal Workers in preparing a Federal disability retirement application, submitted to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, is in failing to coordinate the necessary elements in preparing the case, and instead focusing exclusively upon the seriousness of the medical condition itself. This is a natural course of events, […]
(U.S. SENATE) – In 1977, when 20-year-old Jon Tester was about to take over his family’s farm outside Big Sandy, Montana, the federal government took 61 days to process federal workers’ retirement papers by hand. Thirty-seven years later, Tester is now the senior U.S. Senator for Montana, but the federal government – despite the nation’s […]
@RepCummings @GerryConnolly @RepLynch Request @usgao Study To Further Enhance Effectiveness of Fed Workforce Washington, D.C. (Mar. 27, 2014)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Stephen Lynch, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and the Census, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, […]
GAO: Action Needed to Address Unfunded Benefit Liabilities USPS continues to be in a serious financial crisis, with insufficient revenue to cover its expenses and financial obligations as the volume of USPS’s most profitable product, First-Class Mail, continues to decline. At the end of fiscal year 2013, USPS had about $100 billion in unfunded liabilities: […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A retired Pittsburgh-area postal clerk is suing the U.S. Office of Personnel Management for a copy of his own work records as part of a fight over whether he’s been paid too much in pension benefits and owes the government a refund. The retiree, 57-year-old Daniel Sagi, of Shaler Township, doesn’t say […]
The Office of Personnel Management wants to expand the opportunities for eligible federal employees and their families to change their enrollment in the Federal Employee Dental and Vision Insurance Program (FEDVIP). OPM proposed making these changes to bring FEDVIP inline with the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). “OPM is proposing to expand enrollment opportunities […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Postal Service on Monday defaulted yet again on a prepayment for the healthcare of its future retirees as its finances remain in the red and legislative reform remains elusive. The agency has blamed the payments, more than $5 billion a year as mandated by Congress to prefund the Postal Service’s […]
OIG Report: Using U.S. Postal Service-Specific Assumptions for Calculating the Federal Employees Retirement System Liability This report presents the results of our self-initiated review of Using U.S. Postal Service-Specific Assumptions for Calculating the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) Liability (Project Number 13BG015FT000). Our objective was to review the assumptions used for the Postal Service’s FERS […]