Postmaster General seeks to move retirees to Medicare

Title: Postmaster general: Retirement benefits bankrupting agency

Article Snip: "...requirement isn't sustainable. He's also seeking to move retirees to Medicare...."

Reference: Postal Early Retirement

Lawmakers seek more oversight over Social Security Disability Checks

Title: Lawmakers seek Social Security check protections

Article Snip: "...Fourteen Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee want more scrutiny of how the Social Security Administration oversees benefit checks..."

Reference: Social Security Newsgroup

Postal Employee Retirement Community

Title: Neither rain nor heat nor gloom of night stops folks from living large at the unofficial retirement community of the National Association of Letter Carriers.

Article Snip: "...With an efficiency renting for under $75 in 1964, Nalcrest [Florida] was nirvana for postal retirees. It remains a bargain: A one-bedroom rents for only $305, and dinners at Jay Bee's II, the town's only restaurant, average $6. ..."

Reference: nationalgeographic.com

Federal retirement Policy changes on the way?

Title: How the supercommittee’s failure will impact federal employees

Article Snip: "...Newly hired employees after the transition point would get only the defined contribution plan. That would be a very major change in federal retirement policy …..."

Reference: www.washingtonpost.com
Rep. Issa, Federal Retirement Changes,

Federal Employment Opportunities in Michigan

Title: 11 tips for landing one of the more than 200 federal jobs advertised in Michigan

Article Snip: "...Even with the U.S. government laying off thousands nationally every week, the federal jobs website is still advertising 204 federal jobs in Michigan. ..."

Reference: www.mlive.com
federal employment

Federal Employee Retirement Processing Backlog Grows

Title: OPM: Problem of late pension payments getting worse

Article Snip: "...The Office of Personnel Management's backlog of pending retirement cases has grown 58 percent since Director John Berry first pledged to solve the problem more than a year ago...."

Reference: www.federaltimes.com
Federal Employee Retirement Processing,

USPS Retirement Funding Issue

Title: Bishop signs letter saying post office faces big pension burden

Article Snip: "..."No other public or private business in America" except for the U.S. Postal Service must fund 100 percent of employee retirement and retirement health costs in advance. ..."

Reference: www.politifact.com
usps retirement

TSP Summary

Title: U.S. Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Aug. Summary

Article Snip: "...the federal employee retirement thrift investment plan summary for Aug., according to the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. ..."

Reference: www.bloomberg.com

Report says Federal Employees way underpaid

Title: Federal government says its employees are 25 percent UNDERPAID compared to private sector workers

Article Snip: "...federal employees 26.3 percent underpaid compared to private sector workers in similar jobs. The gap has grown 2 percentage points since last year..."

Reference: www.dailymail.co.uk
Federal employee pay,

Chained CPI offers more cuts to the working class

Title: Debt panel likes ‘chain' COLA; ‘Tricare Prime' cut offered

Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/11/05/1893461/debt-panel-likes-chain-cola-tricare.html#ixzz1csX2LZk5

Article Snip: "...If that CPI were already in use, military retirees, disabled veterans and social security recipients would be getting a 3.4 percent COLA in January rather than the planned 3.6 percent hike, government price data show...."

Reference: www.thenewstribune.com