Posts Tagged ‘FERS’

Earlier this week, President Obama signed the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act. While a full repeal of the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) dominated headlines, one largely underreported aspect of the bill – and arguably one of the most important for federal employees throughout the civil service – was a provision extending credit for accrued [...]

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Today, President Obama signed the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act. Included in the bill was a provision to repeal the controversial National Security Personnel System (NSPS). The bill also contained several small provisions impacting retirement benefits for the federal workforce. The NSPS provisions in the bill dictate a repeal of the [...]

June 12, 2009 “The House quickly passed in a 307-97 vote the Senate’s version of H.R. 1256 on Friday — ending hopes that a conference committee between the two chambers could add federal workforce provisions that were stripped from the bill during legislative wrangling. Unions including the National Federation of Federal Employees had urged House [...]