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Civil Service, Military Raises Moved Along Separate Tracks
The transportation-Treasury bill approved by the Senate committee contained some good news for the Office of Personnel Management.
The bill would provide $26.7 million for the agency's initiative to replace a paper-based system for processing federal retirement claims with an automated system that would more quickly calculate accurate pension benefits.
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Syndicate/SubscribeThe House had not included any funding for the project, which Linda M. Springer , the OPM director, has called essential to modernizing agency operations.
A decision on whether to finance the new technology will probably be left to House and Senate negotiators later this year.
Talk Shows
Tammy Flanagan , a federal retirement and benefits expert, will be the guest on "FEDtalk" at 11 a.m. today on http:/
Van Zeck , commissioner of the public debt, will be the guest on "The IBM Business of Government Hour" at 9 a.m. Saturday on WJFK radio (106.7 FM).
Stephen Barr's e-mail address isbarrs@washpost.com.
