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Bill would address rural postal delivery
Four Senate lawmakers are supporting legislation that would restore postal service standards, with special focus on improving rural mail delivery.
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Insight by Mike Causey: Tick...tick...tick
If you are worried about having your highly personal data hacked now, imagine what the next 15 to 20 years are going to be like ...
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Lawmakers say NDAA provisions harm feds
A group of House Democrats sent a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees asking them to kill provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act they say would hurt Defense Department civilian employees.
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Informed Investor: Strategies to minimize income taxes on taxable portfolios
With less than half of 2015 remaining, now is a good time for employees to focus on strategies to minimize the taxes they could owe on their nonretirement portfolio investment income. This week’s column presents four strategies used to minimize an investor’s tax liability— controlling holding periods, harvesting capital losses, favoring nontaxable interest and qualified dividends, and avoiding “wash sales.”
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Thrift Savings Plan Share Prices
Share prices as of July 15, 2015.
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NARFE riled over G Fund reports
The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association last week went on the offensive over reports that congressional lawmakers may consider changing the rate of return of the Thrift Savings Plan G Fund to offset costs contained in transportation funding legislation.
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FLEOA: Data theft poses greater threat for law enforcement officers
This week, FEND talks about the Office of Personnel Management data breaches with Steve Lenkart, executive director of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. FLEOA, which represents some 26,000 federal law enforcement officers or “LEOs” at agencies ranging from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms to the Federal Protective Service, believes that LEOS are at particular risk because of the hacks.
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Union blasts disparate treatment of breach victims
The American Federation of Government Employees criticized the Office of Personnel Management for extending fewer protections to feds affected by the first of two data breaches announced by the agency.
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Postmaster group supports merger
A group that represents postmasters edged closer to joining forces with another organization in a proposed merger.