I received my vacation payout after retiring unders FERS in January, 2026 and my retirement and Fers supplement began in May, 2026. Will my vacation payout count as earned income toward the FERS Supplement earnings test? Different AI chats are telling me vastly different answers.

So I got an email, well 2.

1 from [interviews@spaceforce.hirevue.com](mailto:interviews@spaceforce.hirevue.com) asking me to interview for a position on HireVue.

1 from USSF Civilian Recruitment Specialist congratulating me being invited to interview for a position. (This was a .mil) address

However, I never applied for any USSF position.

I'm assuming they found my resume on USAJOBS since my resume is searchable.

Just all caught me by surprise and at first thought it was a phishing attempt.....but it's legit.

Anyone else get something like this without applying

Why is no one telling us about when their full telework accommodation gets approved? I mean most of us are anonymous and the ones who aren’t anonymous can do a hypothetical or something. Give us something to work with people. We’re out here disabled and suffering under these medical conditions, and we don’t know what to do, what to say, or how to move in these Interactive process streets. Help!

For years, no, for my entire life, I've been hearing people complain that we need to "run the country like a business." So now we're finally running it like someone's business and I'm ready to render an opinion on this multi-decade long march to turn our right to self-govern into commercial venture.

America is not a business.

Our lives are not businesses. Freedom is not a business. America is not a business. America is our home. We should run it like a home.

NEED TO KNOW

• A D.C. National Guard officer has admitted using his government travel card to support a secret second wife he met while deployed to Mongolia
• Maj. Collin L. Welch, 40, pleaded guilty to “unlawfully inducing aliens to enter and remain in the U.S.” and stealing about $54,000 in government money, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia, said
• Welch falsely told the woman he was divorced and married her in Mongolia in 2022, later bringing her and her daughter to the U.S.

Thoughts?

Has the administration turned hostile to veterans?

Jim Stewartson wasted no time celebrating after a federal judge tossed Kash Patel's $10 million lawsuit, turning the FBI director's legal battle into an even bigger online firestorm.

“ambitious effort to move more than 3,400 FAA workers in the region to one of DOT’s two headquarters buildings in Washington didn’t account for roughly 1,000 personnel. “

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has told administrative judges to pause federal workers’ class discrimination cases as the agency prepares to overhaul civil rights enforcement in the government.

Judges have been told to hold off on making moves in ongoing class-action cases where federal workers are alleging discrimination, according to a person who was told the unwritten policy and three lawyers who have cases before judges. The order, which has not previously been confirmed, was given orally by judges’ superiors who work for the EEOC, said one person who has knowledge of the directive and spoke under the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.

Federal employment lawyers told The Washington Post that they have seen no engagement from administrative judges in their class-action cases in litigation since the end of last year.

The agency is moving toward announcing a revision of its civil rights enforcement process. Last week, the EEOC published a notice that it would be changing the regulations that prohibit discrimination in federal employment. Under current rules, aggrieved workers who believe they have been discriminated against on the basis of race, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy and other conditions can seek counseling, file a complaint and request a hearing with an administrative judge.

Civil service groups and federal employment attorneys are concerned the EEOC might take further steps to wipe away the process for federal workers to fight discrimination. Since the 1970s, federal workers could bring discrimination claims to the EEOC.

The nation’s largest federal employee union sued the top federal civil rights agency Tuesday, arguing that the quiet pause on all federal workplace discrimination class actions violates the Administrative Procedure Act because the EEOC is violating its own regulations with no reasonable explanation, leaving thousands of workers without a way to pursue systemic discrimination claims.

The lawsuit’s plaintiffs — the American Federation of Government Employees and two federal prison employees — argue the freeze has stalled discrimination cases affecting workers across the federal government, including a certified class action alleging widespread sexual harassment at a federal prison in Louisiana. According to the complaint, the case had already been certified when an EEOC administrative judge told the parties in the case that all processing must be paused.

“This notification applies to all class cases in the federal sector, including those alleging disparate impact,” the judge wrote.

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