News coverage for fed employees

[Anonymous]

I am a new federal employee and there is just SO much detail about everything. Our HR folks are busy and not that I'm past orientation I feel bad pestering them about my questions. What is a good outlet that covers news about federal employment including salary, benefits etc.

I google things to answer my questions and all these outlets come up. but I dont know whiwch to trust or to expect will have up to date coverage. Do you read any of these? Or is there better source?

https://www.fedweek.com
https://www.govexec.com/
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/
https://www.federaltimes.com

Recent questions: how does the locality pay work with the COLA; are FERS contributions taxable?

[Anonymous]

I skim gov exec for news related to benefits, etc. Most of it isn't relevant but it is a good source for information like pay raises.

[Anonymous]

You need to separate the issues that will directly affect your paycheck/benefit and the issues you have no control over. To answer your recent q - locality pay and COLA are two separate things. FERS contributions are pretax.

[Anonymous]

Those are decent sites. There are also subreddits you could check out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to separate the issues that will directly affect your paycheck/benefit and the issues you have no control over. To answer your recent q - locality pay and COLA are two separate things. FERS contributions are pretax.

I'm not sure that's right about FERS contributions because when you draw your pension they are not included in the taxable portion of the pension.

[Anonymous]

r/fednews

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to separate the issues that will directly affect your paycheck/benefit and the issues you have no control over. To answer your recent q - locality pay and COLA are two separate things. FERS contributions are pretax.

I'm not sure that's right about FERS contributions because when you draw your pension they are not included in the taxable portion of the pension.

Yes, they are actually post-tax.

[Anonymous]

The OPM site has a lot of good info about all of that.

[Anonymous]

Govexec and fednews are good sites. I am not as familiar with the others but I think they are fine too.

Look at opm.gov for general information about all things federal employment.

[Anonymous]

Reddit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to separate the issues that will directly affect your paycheck/benefit and the issues you have no control over. To answer your recent q - locality pay and COLA are two separate things. FERS contributions are pretax.

I'm not sure that's right about FERS contributions because when you draw your pension they are not included in the taxable portion of the pension.

Yeah I stand corrected. You are right and I was wrong.

Pp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The OPM site has a lot of good info about all of that.

Yup. Go to the source.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The OPM site has a lot of good info about all of that.

Yup. Go to the source.

I find the OPM site terrible to navigate. FAQ pages that can't be hyperlinked, search functions that return irrelevant answers... It could be so much better.