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• WOULD LARGER BUYOUTS LEAD TO MASS RETIREMENTS? - July 13, 2017

• Would More Generous Buyouts Trigger Long-Rumored Retirement Wave?

  By Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  Federal workforce observers said that given the ongoing uncertainty about employees’ pay and benefits, a proposed increase to the amount agencies can offer workers to retire early could be a boon to the White House’s goal of shrinking the government’s footprint.

  The Office of Management and Budget confirmed Tuesday that the Trump administration has asked Congress to expand governmentwide a Defense pilot program boosting the cap on civilian employee Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments from $25,000 to $40,000. 

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