Combined General and Maryland "Freak State" PING!
Posted on 08/17/2017 5:02:18 AM PDT by Hojczyk
As I recall the government doesn’t lay people off. The government has a reduction in force, a RIF.
“Suzy and Trianisha aren’t here any more sir, they got Riffed.”
Riffs and rumors of Riffs are making folks over at EPA very ill.
Federal and postal retirees receiving a pension check from the Office of Personnel Management wait every October for the news of whether they will get a Cost of Living Adjustment, COLA, in next year’s monthly check. We get the same COLA as Social Security recipients. Obama denied everyone a COLA for three of the eight years of his presidency, which had never happened before, and his COLA for 2017 was .3%, which to make clear was NOT three percent but a fraction of one percent, a miniscule amount that doesn’t begin to cover the increase in our federal health plan benefits of 2017. President Trump’s budget plan speaks of giving a 1.5 COLA for 2018 which would be very helpful, but it also proposes punishing federal and postal retirees by removing .5 percent of that COLA and giving us only one percent COLA, which is still better than Obama but it would be a slap in the face to the many federal and postal retirees who voted for Trump. Where then should such voters go in the next election cycle?
This is not a good time to be working at an unemployment office.
Combined General and Maryland "Freak State" PING!
Start with the EEO commission.
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