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Visit our
Federal Career Planning web site.
This site assists federal government employees to design realistic
Individual Development Plans (IDPs) and target new jobs and
promotions in government. Federal government employees have numerous and
attractive career development and upward mobility opportunities available to
them. Developed by a career fed with over 35 years federal service.
The Merit Promotion Program allows those who are status applicants (current federal
employees or those who have reinstatement eligibility) to bid on job openings. MPP
announcements are posted at most offices and on the internet. Many agencies have their own
internet sites where you can view job announcements and print them our for future
reference. OPM also publishes MPP announcements on their USAJOBS web site. A list of
federal web sites is provided under the Resources heading in Chapter Seven.
Agencies can restrict MPP announcements to applicants from their agency and many limit
the geographical area of consideration.
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New 2007 COLA: Complete chart for CSRS & FERS
employees listed at
http://federaljobs.net/retire/benefits.htm.
The Office of Personnel Management issued final
regulations to change the cost-of-living allowance rates received by certain
white-collar Federal and Postal Service employees in Alaska, Guam and the
Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. A summary
table of the changes that were published in the Federal Register/ VOl. 71,
No.148 dated August 2, 2006 for 5 CFR Patt 591 follows.
Note: The arrows in the last column reflect the
direction of the change from the previous indexes.
Retirement COLAs are available on our
Retirement Planning Site.
COLA Rates &
Living-Cost Indexes
| Allowance area/category |
Old COLA rates
(percent) |
Previously published
living-cost indexes |
Revised living-cost
indexes |
New COLA rates (percent) |
| Puerto Rico |
11.5 |
105.10 |
103.04 |
10.5↓ |
| U.S. Virgin Islands |
22.5 |
122.84 |
122.53 |
23.0↑ |
| Anchorage, Alaska |
25.0 |
133.79 |
113.64 |
24.0↓ |
| Fairbanks, Alaska |
25.0 |
115.61 |
115.62 |
24.0↓ |
| Juneau, Alaska |
25.0 |
118.03 |
118.09 |
24.0↓ |
| Rest of the State of Alaska |
25.0 |
136.00 |
135.84 |
25.0 |
| Honolulu County, Hawaii |
25.0 |
127.78 |
125.80 |
25.0 |
| Hawaii County, Hawaii |
16.5 |
119.11 |
117.25 |
17.0↑ |
| Kauai County, Hawaii |
23.25 |
130.58 |
127.63 |
25.0↑ |
| Maui County, Hawaii |
23.75 |
124.49 |
131.50 |
25.0↑ |
| Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands |
25.0 |
127.65 |
127.40 |
25.0 |
There are various geographic coverage areas as well. You
can find the complete
final regulations on the OPM site at
http://www.opm.gov/fedregis/2006/71-080206-43904-a.pdf .
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NARFE - National Active & Retired Federal Employees Association
NARFE has represented
federal workers since
1921 and they fight to protect benefits for federal employees and retirees. They
have an extensive legislative agenda including extending pre-tax health care
premium conversion to retirees and the repeal of the Social Security Government
Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP).
This excellent
organization is a wealth of information and resources for federal employees,
retirees, and survivor annuitants. NARFE's 350,000 members have
access to a wealth of information at
http://www.narfe.org,
their monthly magazine, newsletters, the NARFE staff, and local NARFE chapter
volunteers throughout the United States.
It only costs $25 a year to join and less
with the specials they offer. Members receive full access to their web site, a
very informative monthly magazine, and you can connect to a large network of
active feds and retirees through their local and regional groups.
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All federal employee are eligible to take up to 30 days a
year of paid leave to donors organs or seven days of paid leave when donating
bone marrow under 5 U.S.C. 6327. Organ Donor leave was approved by
Congress in 1999 and OPM encourages agencies to be liberal with this program and
extend time off if needed beyond the 30 day limit.
● Leave for bone marrow and organ donation is a
separate category of leave that is in addition to annual and sick leave.
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