Federal employees approved for telework have been bilking the government by collecting Washington-area pay rates while living in much lower-cost regions.
A near-empty corridor is seen in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, part of the U.S. Capitol complex, after an unprecedented number of cases in the Capitol community affecting hundreds of individuals, according to the Capitol physician, in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. …and the Architect of the Capitol, a congressional office, found that a significant percentage of their employees approved for telework were collecting salaries with locality pay rates higher than where they are now living.
On the federal pay scale, an employee in Virginia Beach who is at GS-9, step one, made roughly $7,000 less than a similar employee in the Washington area last year. A GS-13 step one employee made about $12,000 more by working in the Washington area. The inspector general said the agency bungled by not updating the employees’ duty stations in the records, even though they had approved the telework agreements.
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