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It also directs relevant agencies that Social Security, Medicare and veterans' benefits should not be impacted. The presidential memorandum declares that the hiring freeze expires, for all agencies besides the Internal Revenue Service , within 90 days, after the required publication of a plan for an overall federal workforce reduction to be ...
The Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (commonly called the Vacancies Act) (5 U.S.C. § 3345 et seq. [1]) is a United States federal statute establishing the procedure for filling vacancies in an appointed office of an executive agency of the government before the appointment of a permanent replacement.
Fork in the Road" is the title and subject line of a memo sent on January 28, 2025, by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to all employees of the U.S. federal civil service. The memo, the first ever mass message to all roughly two million federal employees, offered a deferred resignation program for those unwilling to work under the ...
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 created OPM's predecessor, the United States Civil Service Commission.On January 1, 1979, the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 and Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1978 took effect, dissolving the Commission and assigning most of its former functions—except the federal employees appellate function—to new agencies, with most assigned to the newly ...
The government passed the Social Security Fairness Act last month, which will increase benefits for 3.2 million Americans. This mostly applies to former government workers, teachers, police ...
Harry Truman, who would go on to become the first Medicare recipient under President Lyndon B. Johnson, expanded the program with the Social Security Act Amendments of 1950.
Social Security Act of 1935; Other short titles: Social Security Act: Long title: An Act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment laws; to ...
The chamber approved House Resolution 82, the Social Security Fairness Act, by a 327-76 margin, with 191 Democrats and 136 Republicans voting in favor. The measure now goes to the Senate.