S. 4833, titled the "Federal Employee Locality Accountability in Retirement Act," seeks to change how retirement annuities for new federal employees are calculated. It proposes excluding locality-based salary adjustments from the average pay used to compute retirement benefits. This means...
Simple Explanation
Imagine if your allowance was sometimes a little bigger if you did extra chores in certain places, but when you grow up, your savings don't count those extra bits. This bill says when people start working for the government, the extra money they earn for living in certain places won't count towards their retirement savings.