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		<title>AFGE Statement on Federal Employee Retirement Hearing</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2012/01/26/afge-statement-on-federal-employee-retirement-hearing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2012 &#8211; American Federation of Government Employees National President John Gage today issued the following statement in response to the congressional hearing on federal employees&#8217; retirement security before the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on the federal workforce, U.S. Postal Service and labor policy: &#8220;Congress created the Federal Employees Retirement System [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislative Attacks On Federal Retirement Compensation Is Based On Misguided Assumptions</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2012/01/25/legislative-attacks-on-federal-retirement-compensation-is-based-on-misguided-assumptions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[STATEMENT BY DAVID B. SNELL DIRECTOR OF RETIREMENT BENEFITS SERVICES NATIONAL ACTIVE AND RETIRED FEDERAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION ON BEHALF OF THE MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS OF THE FEDERAL-POSTAL COALITION note: Full testimony below Unfortunately, recent legislative proposals have sought to unravel this basic bargain, unfairly singling out middle class federal employees for disproportionate sacrifice. Last month, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Lynch: Hearing On Reducing Retirement Benefits is Really Attack On Federal Workers</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2012/01/25/rep-lynch-hearing-on-reducing-retirement-benefits-is-really-attack-on-federal-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., on Wednesday introduced a bill that would increase how much federal employees pay toward their retirement and steeply reduce pensions for new employees. HR 3813, the Securing Annuities for Federal Employees Act, would raise contributions for current Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) employees by 0.5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retired Postal Worker Fights To Get More than Half Of Pension</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2012/01/09/retired-postal-worker-fights-to-get-more-than-half-of-pension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OPM backlog affecting recent postal retiree. &#160; Mt. Vernon, OH &#8211; A Mt. Vernon veteran who devoted three decades to the U.S. Postal Service as a mail carrier says he is now receiving only about half his pension check from the federal government. Jon Minard served in Vietnam, losing an eye to a grenade, before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postal Employees Should Delay Retirement Until Passage of Postal Reform Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/11/14/postal-employees-should-delay-retirement-until-passage-of-postal-reform-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All APWU represented employees who are retirement eligible should consider delaying their retirement until the Postal Reform efforts have been concluded. Each of the legislative initiatives (Issa &#8211; Carper &#8211; Obama) includes the return of the $7 billion overpayment with authorization to use it for retirement incentives. Retroactivity is probably unachievable so to secure eligibility, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COLA Announced: Federal Retirement Annuities Will Rise in 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/10/19/cola-announced-federal-retirement-annuities-will-rise-in-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal retirees will receive a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to their civil service annuities beginning in January 2012. Retirees in the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) will receive a 3.6 percent increase to their annuities, while retirees in the Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) will receive a 2.6 percent increase to their annuities. To trigger a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tennessee Congressman to Super Committee: Stop Early Retirements</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/10/10/tennessee-congressman-to-super-committee-stop-early-retirements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/10/10/tennessee-congressman-to-super-committee-stop-early-retirements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a press release from  John J. Duncan, Jr.  (R-TN 2nd district): Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. in a letter this week urged the Congressional &#8220;Super Committee&#8221; tasked with finding trillions of dollars in savings in the federal budget to put a stop to early federal retirements.  The text of the letter follows: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USPS Wants to Offer Eligible Postal Workers Early Retirement?</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/09/30/usps-wants-to-offer-eligible-postal-workers-early-retirement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/09/30/usps-wants-to-offer-eligible-postal-workers-early-retirement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Don Cheney pointed out: With all the other commotion going on, most eligible postal employees have overlooked this. I&#8217;m amazed anyone would retire right now without waiting to see what comes out of Congress by November 18th, the new deadline for USPS to make its $5.5 billion payment.  The administration will not back USPS&#8217; proposal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman Issa&#8217;s Bill Would First Layoff  Retirement Eligible Postal Employees</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/09/21/congressman-issas-bill-would-first-layoff-retirement-eligible-postal-employees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/09/21/congressman-issas-bill-would-first-layoff-retirement-eligible-postal-employees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressmen Darrell Issa and Dennis Ross&#8217; amendment to its Postal Reform bill will require USPS to &#8220;separate&#8221;  all retirement eligible employees prior to laying off any workers not yet eligible for a pension, and to &#8220;separate&#8221; the most senior of them first: (II) the term ‘‘non-retirement-eligible employee’’ means an employee who is not a retirement-eligible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NAPUS: Postal Subcommittee to Vote on HR 2309</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/09/20/napus-postal-subcommittee-to-vote-on-hr-2309/</link>
		<comments>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/09/20/napus-postal-subcommittee-to-vote-on-hr-2309/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PR: Issa/Ross Postal Reform Bill Will Include  Amendment  To Boot Out Retirement-Eligible Postal Workers From the National Association of Postmasters of the US: Postal Subcommittee to Vote on HR 2309 On Wednesday, the House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, the Postal Service and Labor Policy will take up Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) postal legislation, HR [...]]]></description>
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