{"id":10058,"date":"2018-06-14T19:46:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/06\/14\/senators-tell-opm-to-drop-federal-retirement-cuts\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:29:06","slug":"senators-tell-opm-to-drop-federal-retirement-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/pay-benefits\/2018\/06\/14\/senators-tell-opm-to-drop-federal-retirement-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators tell OPM to drop federal retirement cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A group of 26 senators called for the Office of Personnel Management to drop its pursuit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/pay-benefits\/2018\/05\/07\/opm-is-out-to-cut-retirement-benefits\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">retirement benefit cuts for current and future federal retirees<\/a> in a June 13 letter to OPM Director Jeff Pon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTogether, the proposals you have made would cut $143 billion over 10 years from federal employee retirement programs, while offering nothing to employees in their place. We fear that these cuts are motivated by an ongoing effort to balance the budget on the backs of federal workers rather than an effort to provide a comprehensive approach to modernizing federal employee compensation,\u201d the senators wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OPM sent a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan in early May, requesting that Congress pass legislation to eliminate annuity supplements, alter the calculation of annuities, increase federal employee retirement contributions and reduce or eliminate cost-of-living adjustments for federal retirees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/pay-benefits\/2018\/05\/16\/opm-director-justifies-retirement-cuts\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Pon defended the proposals<\/a> as a means of bringing the federal retirement system more in line with the private sector while making it easier for employees to transition between federal and private sector employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/congress\/2018\/05\/09\/congressman-calls-out-opm-targeting-of-feds-retirement-benefits\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MikeTurner.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Congressman slams OPM for targeting fed benefits<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, whose district is home to thousands of federal employees, wrote to the Office of Personnel Management Director to oppose legislative proposals that would cut into federal retirement benefits.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe President\u2019s FY19 Budget justification for these proposals states that federal employees are compensated with combined pay and benefits higher than the private sector, relying solely on an April 2017 Congressional Budget Office report,\u201d the senators wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a gross oversimplification of the findings and implications of that report. The report concludes that total compensation costs among workers with a professional degree or doctorate were actually 18 percent lower for federal employees than for similar private-sector employees. To further increase this differential would hamper our ability to hire experts in mission-critical areas. Furthermore, CBO states that the scope of their analysis is limited to selected benefits, and does not include, for example, the stock options that some private sector firms provide to their employees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/pay-benefits\/2018\/04\/12\/federal-employees-face-nearly-32-percent-pay-disparity-with-private-sector\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/money-cut.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Feds face sizable pay gap with private sector<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">A Federal Salary Council report comparing federal employees in various parts of the country with their local private sector counterparts found up to a 32 percent pay disparity between the two.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia \u2014 the state home to nearly eight percent of all federal employees, according to 2017 OPM data \u2014 led the signatures on the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The senators also said they were concerned that a reduction in federal retirement benefits without improvement in benefits elsewhere would deter young, skilled workers from government service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs you know, just 17 percent of federal workers are under 35 years old, and nearly one-third of permanent career federal employees will be eligible to retire next year. 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