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USPS Announces Termination of FSAFEDS Accounts for 2025 Plan Year, Provides New Enrollment Option for Affected Employees

January 17, 2025
On Dec. 30, 2024, the Postal Service notified the APWU that it is informing employees who enrolled in the FSAFEDS Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for plan year 2025 that their accounts will be terminated. FSAFEDS is no longer the FSA administrator...

Postal Workers and Allies: Stop the Slowdown!

January 17, 2025
Stop the Slowdown! The Postal Service proposed plans to decrease service standards to the detriment of our communities. Here’s why hundreds of thousands members of the public are standing up and fighting back against efforts to degrade the country’s...

Social Security, IRS, & OPM Are Not Calling You!

January 17, 2019
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Retirees Department Director Nancy Olumekor When you receive a “cold call” from a federal agency – like the Social Security Administration, ...

Union Membership on the Rise

January 17, 2019
This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  By Research & Education Department Director Joyce B. Robinson According to figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, membership in...

VA Mission Act: A Mission to Help Veterans or Effort to Privatize the VA?

January 17, 2019
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2019 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine)  The Veterans Administration Maintaining Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act was signed into law on June 6, 2018. Dubbed...

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