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SOURCE: www.dol.gov WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs today released a final rule that revises and modernizes the procedures used in administering claims under the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act. The rule, published in the June [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.opm.gov Washington, DC – Today, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director John Berry recognized 26 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) personnel and volunteers, both in the U.S. and overseas, for their outstanding success [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.nteu.org Washington, D.C.—Responding in large part to concerns raised by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), the government has revised significantly a proposed health claims data bank to provide far greater protection against disclosure of personal and medical information [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.ins.state.ny.us Many new college graduates are now finding it easier to maintain their health insurance coverage compared to earlier generations of young adults. Thanks to Federal health care reforms, young adults are now able to stay on their parents’ [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.ag.ny.gov NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today filed a lawsuit to shut down a sham charity that fraudulently raised millions of dollars under the guise of fighting breast cancer, only to funnel the money to organization [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.justice.gov WASHINGTON – Miami doctor Rene De Los Rios, 72, was sentenced today to 235 months in prison for his participation in a $23 million HIV injection and infusion Medicare fraud scheme , announced the Departments of Justice and Health and [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.tsa.afge.org Transportation Security Administration employees across the country today elected the American Federation of Government Employees as their exclusive union representative with a 8903-8447 vote over the National Treasury Employees Union. AFGE National President John Gage today issued the [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.justice.gov WASHINGTON – Three employees of the Solstice Wellness Center, a Brooklyn-area clinic that purported to specialize in providing physical therapy and various diagnostic tests, have pleaded guilty in connection with a $3.4 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced the [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.csealocal1000.org ALBANY – CSEA – New York’s leading union – has reached a tentative contract agreement with New York state on a five-year deal to avert impending layoffs of CSEA-represented state employees and keep people working. The agreement was [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.opm.gov The US Postal Service is facing serious challenges. OPM is sympathetic to the situation in which the Postal Service finds itself, and we stand ready to help the Postal Service in whatever way we can, consistent with our [...] Read More