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SOURCE: www.dol.gov WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent order requiring C.S. Capital Management Inc. of Atlanta, Ga., and owner Paul H. Saylor to restore $1,090,000 to the Plumbers and Pipefitters National Pension Plan as restitution [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.sanders.senate.gov WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 – The Senate today voted 53 to 45 for a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to provide $250 payments to some 58 million Social Security recipients and disabled veterans, but the vote fell seven [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.www.narfe.org FOR INFORMATION: 703 838 7760 x201 leg@narfe.org National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE) President Joseph A. Beaudoin today urged the House of Representatives to include retired public service employees in H.R. 5987, legislation to be considered [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.ins.state.ny.us Jane Griffin, whose long-term disability benefits were cut off when an insurer refused to consider new information about her physical condition, learned that it is possible to challenge an insurance company and win. Griffin saw her monthly disability [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.dol.gov COFFEEN, Ill. — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited U.S. Minerals LLC with willfully exposing its workers to dangerously high levels of hazardous dust, and not providing adequate breathing protection and training [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.dol.gov WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy today announced a series of new products through the Campaign for Disability Employment that are designed to promote the hiring, retention and advancement of people with [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.dol.gov Resource made available by US Labor Department WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, today made available the 2011 Workforce Recruitment Program for College Students [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.defense.gov The 2009 War Supplemental Appropriations Act established Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay (RSLSP), providing $500 for each month/partial month served in stop loss status. Service members, veterans, and beneficiaries of servicemembers whose service was involuntarily extended under Stop [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.akaka.senate.gov Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security Statement of Senator Daniel K. Akaka Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing to discuss options for getting [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.akaka.senate.gov U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii), a member of the Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement today: “The Pentagon report shows that a large majority of our troops support the repeal of this policy, and that our [...] Read More