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The Office of Personnel Management this week issued regulations implementing a 2018 law to ensure that agencies can pay interest on federal employees’ behalf if the agency is responsible for an error in calculating the cost of an optional retirement benefit related to military or volunteer service.
A provision of the 2018 Correcting Miscalculations in Veterans’ Pensions Act allows agencies to make payments on behalf of federal workers to cover for administrative mistakes that led those employees to underpay for an optional retirement annuity benefit.
Currently, federal employees in the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees Retirement System who have served in the military after 1956 or volunteered in the Peace Corps or Volunteers in Service to America have the option to pay a deposit plus interest to their agency for their service in order to continue to receive retirement credit
AI scholarships to be offered for federal service, under proposed bill 4 hours ago Students pursuing degrees in artificial intelligence could get financial support in exchange for agreeing to work for the federal government after graduation. (metamorworks) Students studying artificial intelligence at either the undergraduate or graduate level could have some of their education paid for by agreeing to work for a federal agency after graduation, under legislation introduced by Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and John Thune, R-S.D., April 21. The AI Scholarship-for-Service Act offers a one-to-one arrangement for students attending a qualified university, meaning that they must agree to work a federal AI job for the same length of time that their scholarship term covers.