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SOURCE: www.va.gov Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay Those eligible must submit their claim by October 21, 2010. The DoD website (www.defense.gov/stoploss) links to service-specific sites where you can get more information or begin the RSLSP claim process. The 2009 War [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.healthreform.gov Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, but high health care costs and declining coverage have hindered small business owners and their employees.  Over the past decade, average annual family premiums for workers at small firms increased [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov Affordable Care Act Making Medicare Stronger And More Secure For Seniors And People With Disabilities Washington, D.C. . . . U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that more than 1 million  Medicare [...] Read More

SOURCE: irs.gov Washington, D.C. . . . The Internal Revenue Service today issued guidance reflecting statutory changes regarding the use of certain tax-favored arrangements such as flexible spending arrangements (FSA’s), to pay for over-the-counter medicines and drugs. The Affordable Care [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.opm.gov Measures Cut Previous Red Tape Clogging The Federal Hiring System; Allow Government To Leverage Technology & Private Sector Best Practices Washington, D.C. . . . Today, Director John Berry of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and U.S. [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.va.gov Washington, D.C.  . . . The Department of  Veterans Affairs (VA) workforce of more than 300,000 – including more than 90,000 who are Veterans – knows one of its objectives as it observes Labor Day is to help [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.ins.state.ny.us The health care reform law contains a provision for the establishment of a temporary statewide insurance pool for high risk individuals.  Coverage through this program will be available until January 2014 when more health insurance coverage options become [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov The Urban Institute’s Genevieve Kenney Presents New Report On States’ Success Enrolling Target Populations In Medicaid & CHIP Washington, D.C. . . . U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Department of Education [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.hhs.gov HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced three sets of grants and cooperative agreements totaling nearly $17 million for patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR), or research that compares treatments and strategies to improve health outcomes for patients. The three-year funds, [...] Read More

SOURCE: www.usps.gov Washington, D.C. . . . The U.S. Postal Service begins contract negotiations today with the largest of its four unions, the American postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO (APWU). The APWU represents employees who work as clerks, mechanics, vehicle drivers, [...] Read More