Looks like we are down to 11 days:
July 8th for me:
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Looks like we are down to 11 days:
July 8th for me:
If furloughed days are grouped vice spread out.Quote:
Based on government pay grades, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry estimates most federal employees will not be eligible for benefits unless they work less than 28 hours per week. Indeed, if Coleman works just four days a week -- he would surpass the $745 limit. However, the scenario changes completely now that Coleman can group his furlough days together in five-day blocks. In that case, he will lose a full week of wages at a time, and the state would consider him like any other worker on a temporary layoff. Coleman hopes this will allow him to collect roughly $1,100 in unemployment checks this summer.
Question to those that have actually been furloughed...
Were your Federal, State, Social Security, Medicare, and FERS taxes reduced as expected - or did they do nothing and just slam you? If those taxes are not automatically adjusted I will have to do what I can to take them to where they should be. Can't do much about some of them on my own, but I can change the allocations from Fed and State.
Just wondering. It takes two pay periods to make these kind of adjustement...
Wonderful use of our tax money! US gives Syrians $300M in aid
Not sure about FERS but for CSRS they go by your annual rate of pay for High Three Computations so that furlough days don't affect it. Could affect Social Security I suppose but should not be significant. Check on the OPM site for FERS information.
http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-overs...-furloughs.pdf Check on page 17.
For FERS you get what you pay for. For standard FERS oldtimers you pay 0.8%. To figure out your annual salary according to FERS take your YTD FERS deduction from your End-of-Year statement and divide by 0.008. It is usually close to your annual salary but doesn't include things like bonuses or overtime pay. It may also not include some other specialty pay you may recieve, but it does include Locality pay.
More Furloughs:
Chuck knows savings
Going to have to start RIFs soon! Hold on DoD!Quote:
Sticking to his message, and stopping short of directly answering her question, Hagel offered little hope.
"There's no good news," he said.
Remember fellow DOD types...
This past paycheck only contains half the excitement... More to come;)