Federal Managers Association
FEDweek
The Senate has stripped most federal employment-related provisions from a major spending and tax policy bill as it has turned to voting on the bill, as numerous amendments are pending and the bill’s ultimate prospects for approval remain in some doubt.
The main workplace-related provision that remains is a relatively uncontroversial one, to conduct a thorough audit of persons covered as family members under the FEHB program and to cull out those who are ineligible. There has been longstanding bipartisan support for such a review, following reports from GAO and OPM’s inspector general that coverage of ineligible persons is raising costs in that program.
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