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Available reporting shows there are two different but related numbers to watch for 2026: the COLA for federal retirees (annuitants) — announced as 2.8% for CSRS and effectively 2.0% for many FERS annu...
The sources show multiple policy moves and scrutiny around VA bonuses in 2024–2025 — including recoupment appeal procedures published January 15, 2025 (OPM rule on VA bonus recoupments) — but none of ...
VHA’s 2025 payments landscape shows both statutory benefit rate updates (Special Monthly Compensation, DIC, and other VA allowances effective Dec. 1, 2024 or Oct. 1, 2024) and separate personnel pay c...
ICE (and DHS) has rolled out recruiting incentives that include signing bonuses “up to $50,000” for roles such as deportation officers, and the agency is pairing those offers with loan-repayment/forgi...
The available reporting shows no single, universally agreed-upon end date for the 2025 continuing resolution across all stakeholders, but the most recent contemporaneous news reporting identifies as t...
ICE advertised signing bonuses up to $50,000 for certain recruits and former employees in mid‑2025; reporting says the full bonus offer applied to former employees and had deadlines (e.g., available u...
ICE’s public pay structure relies on federal salary schedules, hiring incentives (signing bonuses, LEAP, overtime) and program reimbursements rather than routine “per‑arrest” bonuses for its employees...
Available reporting gives multiple figures for ICE funding but no single definitive percentage of the DHS budget that ICE represents; the FY2026 ICE request/justification lists $11.3 billion for ICE ,...
Congress and the White House activity in mid‑2025 dramatically changed the scale of funding available to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): the FY2026 baseline request to Congress was $11.3 bi...
Federal employees and retirees should consult the Office of Personnel Management’s website and its retirement/COLA pages for official notices — OPM posts finalized pay tables, special-rate notices, an...
Federal reporting in 2025 shows the biggest federal sign‑on and bonus programs are concentrated at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — chiefly Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Cus...
Available reporting shows ICE has been offering signing bonuses up to $50,000, loan repayment, overtime pay and other hiring incentives for deportation officers and agents, but the sources do not docu...
The 43-day 2025 shutdown furloughed roughly 900,000 federal employees and forced about 2 million to work without pay, withholding nearly 3 million civilian paychecks worth an estimated $14 billion by ...
Locality pay, special salary rates and overtime can materially boost an ICE or Border Patrol agent’s take‑home pay in 2025 — with base pay often augmented by locality and special rates, and overtime/A...
Federal employees received a relatively large across‑the‑board boost in early 2025—about a 4.5% average raise—yet that headline number sits uneasily beside multiple measures of price and private‑secto...
is publicly advertising signing and retention incentives that can total “,” but the way that money is delivered and the commitments required are not uniform: some announcements and reporting describe ...
The $1,776 “warrior dividend” checks announced to troops are not newly raised, off‑budget tariff windfalls but largely drawn from Congress‑approved military housing funds: administration officials say...
DHS announced in August 2025 that it will waive previous age caps for new hires at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), removing prior maximums that had been 37 or 40 for certain positions ...
Furloughed federal employees are placed in a temporary nonduty, nonpay status because work or funding has ceased; federal employees continue to perform work permitted during a lapse in appropriations ...
In 2025 the GS base pay received a 1.7% across‑the‑board increase and locality payments added an average of about 0.3%, producing an overall average raise of roughly 2% for most General Schedule emplo...