With a little more than four months remaining in 2017, employees are encouraged to increase their Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) contributions. This week’s column discusses TSP contribution limits during 2017. Also discussed are the different types of TSP accounts, agency automatic and matching TSP contributions for FERS-covered employees, and the tax consequences of TSP contributions and withdrawals.
The General Services Administration has increased the per diem rates for fiscal year 2018, which will go into effect Oct. 1.
The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has sent a letter to the Office of Personnel Management acting director seeking more for information on the OPM rule that grants an Affordable Care Act exemption to Congress and its staff.
President Trump is giving veterans unlimited access to college assistance under the Forever GI Act that he signed into law Wednesday.
While the Environmental Protection Agency successfully reduced its workforce as instructed, it also highlighted the agency’s “weak” management system, failed to produce other restructuring goals, and led to misuse of authority, according to an Office of Inspector General report.
The General Services Administration has increased the per diem rates for fiscal year 2018, which will go into effect Oct. 1.
The U.S. Postal Service urged for postal reform and regulatory relief in its fiscal year 2017 third quarter earnings report.
The Senate approved a bill that aims to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse by federal employees while they travel for work.
The Senate this week has passed a bill aimed at boosting employment and funding health care at Veterans Affairs.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged four former brokers with swindling older federal employees out of their Thrift Savings Plan retirement accounts.