washingtonpost.com - Stephen Barr's Federal Diary (washingtonpost.com)Stephen Barr's Federal Diary column monitors workplace issues for federal government employees.Disability Cases Pending, Pending . . .- February 29, 2008 Over the next decade, the Social Security Administration's workload will increase substantially. Retirement claims will jump by more than 40 percent and disability claims by nearly 10 percent.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022803625.html?nav=r... TSA Whistle-Blowers Gain Access to Merit Systems Protection Board- February 28, 2008 One of the government's largest workforces will get an extra layer of whistle-blower protection.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022703396.html?nav=r... Defense Honors Service in War on Terrorism- February 27, 2008 N atalie Sudman, a project manager for the Army Corps of Engineers, had been in southern Iraq for 15 months when a roadside bomb exploded as her convoy returned from an inspection of water treatment plants and a new road.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022602997.html?nav=r... |