{"id":1204,"date":"2026-02-22T11:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:16:18","slug":"lawmakers-eyeing-changes-to-federal-benefits-hiring-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/2026\/02\/22\/lawmakers-eyeing-changes-to-federal-benefits-hiring-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers eyeing changes to federal benefits, hiring, pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/congress\/2026\/02\/lawmakers-eyeing-changes-to-federal-benefits-hiring-pay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>article in the Federal News Network<\/strong><\/a> by Drew Friedman covers a number of bills that could have impacts to Federal Employees and\/or Retirees. \u201cThe House Oversight and Government Reform Committee earlier this month considered, and ultimately advanced, about a dozen bills, some of which received strong bipartisan support from committee members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This article has addressed a round-up of some recent legislation that may bring changes to benefits, pay and hiring practices for the federal workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent bipartisan bills seek to incorporate skills-based hiring into federal cybersecurity jobs, as well as update caps for employee separation incentives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2025\/10\/2025-10-14-Advocacy-Puzzle.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}