Stephen Barr writes in the Washington Post's Federal Diary that merit-based pay at the Federal Aviation Administration is causing more employees to join labor unions and file lawsuits.  Some employees charge that the new system has reduced their pension projections by thousands of dollars per year.  Others charge excessive secrecy ...

Here’s another potential budget-buster which all fellow retirees like me would love to see come to pass.

As welcome and reasonable as this may appear, its chances for passage may not be so good.  After all, for over 20 years, hundreds of thousands of retirees have been unfairly punished ...

"Contractors Rarely Held Responsible for Misdeeds in Iraq" (The Washington Post 11/04/06) and "In Iraq Just Signing the Contract is No. 1" (The New York Times 10/25/06).  A discussion of these and other contracting abuses follows:

A little known truth about Washington has become more evident through recent news about three ...

If you are a federal employee, depending on whether you work in the Information Technology (IT) field or are in the Civil Service Retirement System, (CSRS) of Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), your career options may be materially different – and better – than ever before.

No longer ...

Look what Tammy Flanagan and Bob Leins of the National Institute of Transition Planning have for us.  It’s very interesting news about retirement planning, new laws affecting retirement benefits, strategies, and more.

 

Here’s their article.

 

 

 

Now that the baby-boomers are coming of retireable age, one can hardly look in any periodical, newspaper, or website without encountering something about what to consider in planning for retirement from the workforce.

Tammy Flanagan of the National Institute of Transition Planning has some interesting and important information to convey in her July ...

BY ANONYMOUS On behalf of all past, present, and future CSRS (Civil Service Retirement System) retirees,       "Short of double taxation, what U.S. law authorizes both taxation of Civil Service Retirement System contributions going into the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and then ...

Re: Taxing CSRS Retirement Contributions by Anonymous on 2005.10.07 12:28PM EDT  |  As a CSRS member with 26 years of Federal service, I have long suppressed the fear that my employeer would "mess" with my retirement system. My theory has been, that as the number of CSRS members declined, the ability to resist ...

Re: taxing CSRS retirement contributions 2x?? by Horatius on 2005.10.07 07:44AM EDT  |   Come on, guys, it's because, over an average time-after-retirement period, the bulk of the retirement payments greatly exceed the sum of the contributions. As for why employee contributions to the CSRS are taxed, it's because -- under the IRS code -- the ...

Re: taxing CSRS retirement contributions 2x?? by Anonymous on 2005.10.07 07:10AM EDT  | Its just another way for this administration to help the rich folks. I have worked for DOD for 25 years and I have never seen an administration circumvent the law like this one does. Reduce taxes on the rich, ...