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• Agencies ramp up pressure on their workers to quit - February 4, 2025

• By Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  With just two days remaining before the deadline for federal workers to accept or reject the Trump administration’s so-called deferred resignation program, agencies are again defending its legality and increasingly coaxing feds to take the deal.
  
  Federal workers have until Thursday to respond to one of a series of emails offering what Trump officials are calling “buyouts,” in which a federal worker is paid their current salary and benefits until Sept. 30 though will have effectively quit by the end of February. Administration officials say employees who accept the deal will be placed on paid administrative leave—in an apparent effort to circumvent the $25,000 cap on Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments—while the Office of Personnel Management has already begun granting agencies Voluntary Early Retirement Authority for eligible federal workers.

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