FEDERAL CUTS: Detrimental to Idaho
According to recent data, Idaho is home to approximately 10,993 federal employees. These individuals play critical roles in managing our public lands, ensuring national security, and providing essential services to our communities.
Recently proposed changes by the U.S. House of Representatives, including increasing employee contributions to the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) to 4.4% for all employees and shifting the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program to a voucher model, would place undue financial burdens on these workers. These benefits cuts would amount to, on average for a federal employee, an effective $25,000 pay cut! Think just for a moment if your company came and told you, “Next year I’m going to need you to keep doing your job and pick up more work due to layoffs, but your take home pay is going to be $25,000 less.”
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