In this article I'm once again making the case for a High-Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) paired with a Health Savings Account (HSA). I've had GEHA HDHP ...

Divorce happens, including to federal employees and retirees. When it does, it affects many aspects of life, including benefits flowing from federal employment. Those benefits can be a substantial ...

OPM has finalized rules to end the “time in grade” limit on promotions that has applied in most GS positions. “This rule ...

More than a year after creating the deferred resignation program—and enticing some 140,000 persons to leave federal employment under those offers last year—the Trump administration has formally put it ...

DoD secretary Pete Hegseth has issued a memo threatening “administrative, disciplinary, and, where appropriate, criminal action under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and/or applicable federal law ...

TRICARE Open Season will soon get underway, and is your chance to change your health plan to take effect starting in January.

For general schedule and certain other categories of employees, premium night pay is a 10 percent differential paid to an employee for regularly scheduled work performed between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. For ...

Some agencies, especially in the homeland security, law enforcement, defense and intelligence fields, offer enhanced foreign language pay to employees. Employees are eligible for foreign language pay ...

“Premium conversion” is a pre-tax arrangement in which the part of an employee’s salary that goes for Federal Employees Health Benefits program or Postal Service Health Benefits program premiums ...