By Ben Smith – February 10, 2015 WASHINGTON — On Feb. 10, 2007, Barack Obama stood outside the state capitol in Springfield, Illinois, and announced his candidacy for president, promising a generational call to change the “ways of Washington,” gauzily promising a “future of endless possibility.” Reporters peered down at the senator from a building…
Federal employees and retirees will have some added health insurance protection in 2015 if disaster strikes. Beginning next year, many enrollees in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program won’t have to worry about paying separate (i.e., potentially more) out-of-pocket expenses for different benefits, like prescription drugs, the way some currently do. The out-of-pocket cap in…
How would you like to wind up working three, four or five years longer than you had planned? Either that or leaving the comfort of the subsidized, cradle-to-grave federal employee health program, FEHBP, for coverage under the Affordable Care Act? One of the major perks of being a federal or postal worker, or a retiree,…
The National Treasury Employees Union is an independent union representing, according to its own figures, “some 150,000” federal workers from many different agencies. The union claims to fight for the “dignity and respect” of its members, and it maintains a “legislative action center” to keep tabs on what Congress is up to. With a Republican-controlled…
