{"id":7113,"date":"2014-03-04T17:30:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T22:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7113"},"modified":"2014-03-04T17:30:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T22:30:36","slug":"obamas-2015-budget-includes-a-few-postal-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/03\/04\/obamas-2015-budget-includes-a-few-postal-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s 2015 Budget Includes A Few Postal Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 04, 2014<\/p>\n<p>President Obama unveiled his Fiscal Year 2015 Budget and it includes a number of proposals that relate to the Postal Service.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1a-NAPUS-small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6549\" alt=\"1a-NAPUS-small\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1a-NAPUS-small.gif\" width=\"322\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Refund the Postal Service the projected Federal Employees Retirement System overpayment of $5 billion, over a 2-year period<\/li>\n<li>Recalculate the USPS retiree health liability and restructure the payments, which the Administration projects will provide the agency with about $9 billion in relief through FY 2016<\/li>\n<li>Provide USPS authority to reduce mail frequency to 5-days a week<\/li>\n<li>Permit the USPS to shift to curbside and centralized delivery, and codify POSTPlan<\/li>\n<li>Extend the 4.3% exigent postage rate increase permanently, rather than ending it in January 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, the President\u2019s budget would permit the Office of Personnel Management to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Offer FEHBP coverage for domestic partners of Federal and postal employees and retirees, beginning in 2016<\/li>\n<li>Contract with Preferred Provider health plans, as part of the FEHBP<\/li>\n<li>Contract directly with pharmaceutical providers<\/li>\n<li>Permit FEHBP premium adjustments based on participant\u2019s tobacco use and\/or enrollment in a wellness program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, the President\u2019s budget does not propose to implement the so-called chained-CPI.<\/p>\n<p>Source: NAPUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 04, 2014 President Obama unveiled his Fiscal Year 2015 Budget and it includes a number of proposals that relate to the Postal Service.\u00a0 Refund the Postal Service the projected Federal Employees Retirement System overpayment of $5 billion, over a 2-year period Recalculate the USPS retiree health liability and restructure the payments, which the Administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7114,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113\/revisions\/7114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}