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Article Title: Service Credit and Your Federal Retirement
Snippet of Article: "...Service Credit is a program that allows employees to make payments into the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) or..."
Article Title: Obama plans to shut down federal internship program
Snippet of Article: "...plans to issue an executive order ending a federal internship program that critics say circumvents proper hiring practices. Since it began in 2001, the Federal Career Intern Program (FCIP) has been used to hire more than 100,000 people, few of them interns..."
Article Title: FERS Annuity Supplement Calculation
Snippet of Article: "...The FERS annuity supplement is paid in addition to gross monthly Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) annuity benefits. It represents what you would receive for your FERS civilian service from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and is calculated as if you were eligible to receive SSA benefits on the day you retired. If you retire voluntarily on an immediate annuity which is not reduced for age, you may be eligible for the annuity supplement, in addition to your regular monthly FERS benefit. You may also receive the supplement if..."
Article Title: AFGE Applauds MSPB Ruling Upholding Worker Rights
Snippet of Article: "...The American Federation of Government Employees applauds yesterday's decision by the Merit Systems Protection Board upholding the appeals rights of federal employees who hold sensitive positions that don't require security clearances or access to classified information...."
Article Title: Yale Helps Two Veterans Groups File Lawsuits Against Federal Agencies
Snippet of Article: "...Yale Law students in the school’s new Veterans Legal Services Clinic filed two major lawsuits against the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense..."
Article Title: Federal shutdown a possibility
Snippet of Article: "...The federal government could shut down at midnight on Dec. 18 if the Senate doesn't pass a fiscal 2011 appropriations bill before then...."
Article Title: IRS Says Worker Had Hand in Cookie Jar
Snippet of Article: "...Fern Stephens, an IRS employee since 1984..."
Article Title: Has government added jobs, or lost them?
Snippet of Article: "...work for government, which, thanks to President Obama, has become the only booming 'industry' left in our economy..."
Article Title: US Gov't Worker Pleads Guilty to Accessing Student Files
Snippet of Article: "...Robinson logged into the agency's National Student Loan Database System (NSLDS) and repeatedly viewed the confidential college loan records of several hundred people, including musicians, actors..."
Article Title: Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees
Snippet of Article: "...The Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees program provides benefits for eligible unemployed former civilian Federal employees. The program is administered by States as agents of the Federal government. This program is operated under the same terms and conditions that apply to regular State Unemployment Insurance (see State Unemployment Insurance). In general, the law of the State in which your last official duty station in Federal civilian service was located will be the State law that determines eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits...."
Article Title: The Magic Date
Snippet of Article: "...You said the best day for a Civil Service Retirement System employee to retire in 2010 was ..."
Article Title: Social Security tax break treats federal workers differently
Snippet of Article: "...Federal employees covered by the Federal Employee Retirement System pay 7 percent of their salary into the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, with Social Security getting 6.2..."
Article Title: Advocate for veterans draws federal inquiry
Snippet of Article: "...James Sechrist of Milford in Pike County, a retired federal contracting officer and consultant to disabled veterans, said Foreman served as an advocate for veteran-owned businesses. He said it appeared the VA would punish Foreman for doing his job "too well."..."
Article Title: Search continues in postal worker shooting
Snippet of Article: "...The Miami Herald reports that Parton was the seventh postal worker killed on the job across America since September of 2009.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/07/1962622/search-continues-in-postal-worker.html#ixzz17UX1HVSb..."
Article Title: Hoyer comes out against two-year federal pay freeze
Snippet of Article: "...House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) has joined a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) opposing President Obama's proposal for a two-year pay freeze for civilian federal workers.
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Article Title: Federal Pay Freezes, Firing and Other ‘Myths’ about Feds
Snippet of Article: "...announcement last week of a proposed two-year pay freeze for federal workers was only outdone by the advice of his deficit commission a few days later, recommending even deeper cuts...."
Article Title: U.S. issues no-read order on leaked papers
Snippet of Article: "...The notice went out Friday and suggested any federal employee or member of the military would be breaking the law if they looked at the documents published by the..."
Article Title: Commission vote leaves 3-year pay freeze proposal in limbo
Snippet of Article: "...Eleven members supported the report, and seven did not. The report needed support from 14 members to require Congress to do anything with it. However, while the vote was not enough to compel action, the discussion sparked by the process..."
Article Title: The Hypocrisy of Freezing Public Sector Compensation
Snippet of Article: "...it shifts income from the earner to the government in order to increase revenue. However, when one acknowledges that public sector employees are predominately middle-class earners, the impact is more drastic due to the effects changes in compensation have on expendable income, resulting in less money being saved for college funds and retirements, spent on vacations, invested in real estate and so on. ..."
Article Title: Democrat TSA Shutdown | Wasted Union Dues: AFGE Silent on Democrat Attack on Unionized TSA Workers The disgusting AF...
