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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Proposals to cut federal employee benefits are also under discussion. Among the changes are:

Increasing employee contributions to the federal pension system, projected to save $44 billion over a decade.

Eliminating supplemental pensions for retirees aged 57 to 62.

Basing pensions on the final five years of service, rather than the last three, reducing payouts.

Transitioning federal health insurance to a voucher model.-[b]WHAT IS THIS?[/b]
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Unions and collective bargaining
Efforts to weaken federal unions are central to the administration’s goals. A memo circulated by the conservative group Americans for Tax Reform outlines plans to limit collective bargaining rights, citing a 1978 law allowing exclusions for “national security concerns.”

Recommendations include restricting union protections at agencies like the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Transportation Security Administration, and the Defense Department.[/quote]

Every employee would get a flat amount towards insurance instead of covering a percentage of whatever you choose the way it is now.  Not sure if they would cover more for family plans or not.[/quote]

Dh and I are both feds. It would be sweet if we both got vouchers. As it is, I don’t get any credit for not taking my work’s insurance at all. [/quote]

What I have been reading doesn't sound like a voucher as in they give you X dollars and you go find your own insurance. Rather, everyone gets $X towards their federal insurance plan cost. Right now, the government pays 72% of the insurance premiums (up to a cap of $298 for self only coverage). So, for example, if you have BCBS, the government pays $298 a pay period for you, but if you have a cheaper plan like GEHA they pay $240. Under the new system, they'd pay the same amount for everyone, and employees would pay the difference. So, if they went by the current cap as the voucher amount, BCBS subscribers would keep paying the same, and GEHA subscribers would now save an extra $60/pp. If they went with a lower amount as the cap, then more people would see an increase and fewer people would see a reduction. [/quote]

Since this is a cost-cutting measure, we can bet they'll have a low cap that will keep getting lower. [/quote]

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