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As NARFE National President, I want to take this opportunity to wish all of you a Happy New Year on behalf of your elected officers at NARFE Headquarters, the National Executive Board and the NARFE staff. As we look to 2011, I think we can all agree that we face many, many challenges, internally and
externally. I urge you to stand with us as we fight to prevent an unfair share of budget-reduction efforts from being placed on federal civilian employees and retirees. Working together, we can make a difference.
Joseph A. Beaudoin, National President
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NARFE's Top 10 Legislative Accomplishments in the 111th Congress (2009-2010)
1. Equity for Federal Retirees in Stimulus Bill:
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Ensures that federal, state and local government retirees who are not eligible for Social Security will receive a one-time, $250 per-person refundable tax credit for the 2009 tax year.
2. Protection of Federal Benefits:
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Protects benefits by defeat of an amendment to the fiscal year 2010 House Budget Resolution that would have cut federal civilian retirement and/or health benefits by $10 billion over 10 years.
3. Re-employing Annuitants:
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Allows federal agencies to re-employ federal retirees on a limited, part-time basis without offset of annuity.
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4. Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) Sick Leave:
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Permits FERS workers initially to credit half, and in 2014 all, of their unused sick leave toward retirement.
5. FERS Redeposit:
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Allows returning FERS employees, who previously left federal service, to repay a deposit to the Retirement Trust Fund, with interest, in order to be able to combine their past and new federal service
for future annuity service.
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6. Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) Part-Time Service Fix:
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Permits certain CSRS workers to phase down to part-time status at the end of their careers without reducing their final annuity.
7. Locality Pay Equity:
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Provides locality pay that is creditable toward retirement for federal employees in Hawaii, Alaska and the U.S. Territories.
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8. Enactment of Enhancements to the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP):
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- Automatic Enrollment and Immediate Contributions: Provides automatic TSP enrollment of, and immediate matching contributions for, newly hired federal employees.
- Roth Option: Adds a "Roth"
option to the TSP, allowing participants to make after-tax contributions to the plan and withdraw their earnings tax-free upon retirement.
- TSP Accounts Rights for Survivors: Ensures that surviving spouses have the same rights over their inherited accounts as any other TSP participant.
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9. Shielding the Federal Employees Health
Benefits Program (FEHBP) in the Senate's Health Care Reform Bill:
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- Safeguards: NARFE-drafted language would safeguard the FEHBP under a plan to have the Office of Personnel Management manage health plans for nonfederal civilians.
- Threatening Amendments Dropped: Proposals were dropped that would have required federal workers to join health exchanges and that would have opened the FEHBP to nonfederal civilians without separate risk pools.
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10. Enactment of Expanded Telework Opportunities:
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Requires executive branch agencies to establish policies allowing eligible employees to telework.
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