Degree: soil conservation or related agricultural or natural resource discipline such as agronomy, soil science, forestry, agricultural education, or agricultural engineering. The study must have ...

What is the Patients' Bill of Rights? In March of 1997, President Clinton appointed the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry (Commission) to advise him on ...

There are no Individual Occupational Requirements for this series. Use the Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Administrative and Management Positions for this series in conjunction with the ...

The Family Member Eligibility Verification (FMEV) is OPM’s required process for ensuring that only eligible family members are enrolled in FEHB and PSHB health plans. It requires agencies to request ...

Some positions in this series involve professional accounting responsibilities that require professional accounting knowledge. For these positions only, applicants must meet the minimum qualification ...

Use the Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Professional and Scientific Positions for this series in conjunction with the Individual Occupational Requirements described below. Degree: ...

This section provides information useful to retirees and their families. There are many occasions that might affect your benefits. Explains how benefits are affected by events such as marriage, ...

General Experience (for GS-5 positions): Experience that provided a general knowledge of business practices. Such experience may have been gained in government, business or industry, investigative ...

Rest of United States (Consisting of those portions of the United States and its territories and possessions as listed in 5 CFR 591.205 not located within another locality pay area.) ...

This series covers technical positions supervising, leading, or performing work involving applying a practical knowledge of the: methods and techniques of engineering or architecture; and construction ...

This chart provides Internal Revenue Service (IRS) quarterly interest rates used to compute back pay. The IRS updates the interest rates on January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 each year. IRS ...

OPM was established as a standalone agency in 1978 to oversee federal workforce management, but our roots date back to 1883, when the Civil Service Reform Act created the competitive civil service.