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04/12/2024
On Tax Day, NTEU Celebrates IRS Investments and Success

WASHINGTON – For the second year in a row, American taxpayers have experienced first-hand a successful tax filing season aided by better customer service from a larger, more accessible IRS workforce, thanks to the resources provided by the Inflation Reduction Act. The 2024 tax filing season ends Monday, April 15, and the data so far show the IRS continues to ...

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04/10/2024
Chapter-Run Website and Facebook Pages

Chapter 4, IRS Iowa Facebook Chapter 9, IRS Cincinnati Facebook  Chapter 14, IRS St. Louis Facebook - Website Chapter 20, IRS San Francisco Facebook - Website Chapter 22, IRS Philadelphia Facebook  ...

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04/10/2024
New Student Debt Relief Plan Announced

More than 25 million borrowers now owe more than what they originally borrowed, due to the interest accrued on their federal student loans. The administration outlined canceling up to $20,000 of the amount a borrower’s balance growth due to unpaid interest on their loans after entering repayment, regardless of income. No application will be needed for NTEU ...

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04/04/2024
NPS Shares ‘Total Eclipse of the Park’

There won’t be another opportunity to experience a total solar eclipse like this until 2044 (seen in North Dakota and Montana), so if you’re curious, NPS has a few ideas: How to safely see the eclipse Where to best view   Get the whole family involved with Junior Ranger Ideas Happy viewing!

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04/04/2024
Pushing Back on the Critics

The OPM final regulation ensures that employees transferred to a new Schedule F would maintain their rights to challenge an adverse action like being fired. So now the groups are lashing out at it with a mix of weak legal arguments and misleading claims in their public comments. Check out this summary of opposing groups' comments, followed by NTEU’s ...

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04/04/2024
OPM Establishes Safeguards Against Schedule F

WASHINGTON – Any future administration determined to politicize the federal workforce will not be able to randomly fire career civil servants without cause under new regulations proposed by NTEU and finalized today by the Office of Personnel Management. “With these regulations, President Biden’s administration has strengthened the guardrails around the ...

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04/03/2024
News Release
03/22/2024
NTEU Supports Proposed Rule to Limit Agency Relocations

WASHINGTON – Federal agencies considering moving offices to distant locations would have to first consult employees, analyze the cost and ensure that the move would not result in massive staff departures or loss of diversity, under requested regulations endorsed by NTEU. A pending petition with the Office of Personnel Management urges OPM to establish rules to ...

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03/21/2024
Biden Announces $5.8 Billion More in Student Debt Relief

Total relief through PSLF is now $62.5 billion for 871,000 borrowers since October 2021. The relief is a result of fixes that the administration made to the PSLF program at the urging of NTEU and its members who were previously denied relief they believed they were getting. Prior to these fixes, only about 7,000 borrowers had ever received forgiveness. ...

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03/20/2024
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03/12/2024
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03/12/2024
News Release
03/12/2024
Business, Industry Join Call for More Staffing at Ports of Entry

WASHINGTON – A powerful coalition of business and industry groups that rely on efficient operations at U.S. ports of entry have joined NTEU in calling on Congress to approve funding for 1,000 new Customs and Border Protection Officers in the supplemental funding package.  This supplemental funding would help the fight against fentanyl and other synthetic ...

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03/11/2024
FEEA

That organization is the Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund (FEEA). When a major storm strikes, a car breaks down or a spouse loses a job, FEEA is there for these federal employees who need an extra hand. For more than 30 years, FEEA has been there to assist federal employees in times of dire need by providing grants and no-interest loans. NTEU is ...

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03/11/2024
Our History

It all started back in 1938 when a group of Internal Revenue collectors organized to improve their working conditions. At the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the pay was low, the work dangerous and many had no civil service protections to protect them from the whims of political bosses. Other federal employee organizations were unwilling to represent these revenue ...

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03/08/2024
Biden Thanks Devoted Federal Employees

“Your talents could have taken you many places, but you chose to serve our country,” wrote Biden. “I am grateful that you are using your abilities to improve the lives of everyone across America.” The letter credits the federal workforce with connecting Americans with “life-saving and life-changing services” and acknowledges the families of federal ...

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03/08/2024
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03/06/2024
Our Issues

Stand up, take legislative action and bring others on board to fight for our future! Increasing Federal Pay Supporting an average7.4 percent pay raise in 2025 Addressing pay compression Codify a $15 minimum wage for all workers Protecting and Expanding Benefits Fighting for paid family leave Blocking efforts to reduce retirement benefits or increase ...

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03/06/2024