This article reviews the recent experience of adult survivor annuitants under the Federal civil service retirement program. Data are presented for such persons in terms of their status in December 1975 as primary beneficiaries, secondary beneficiaries, or nonbeneficiaries under the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. Analysis reveals that 63 percent of the survivor ann...

The union of the three branches of the Indian Medical Service, Bengal, Bombay and Madras under one Director-General, which has just taken place almost exactly coincides with attacks on the efficiency of the service as a whole, and with doubts expressed as to the friendliness of the two divisions of the service, the Civil and the Military. These facts seem to point to the necessity for members o...

by moving government closer to the people, it brings public sector activities and decisions in line with popular preferences. Yet, in practice, the civil service—a critical component of government— rarely enters the decision calculus of decentralization design. The civil service is often recognized as an afterthought rather than seen as essential to successful decentralization. This is lamentab...

WASHINGTON—Federal employees can reasonably expect to get a basic pay raise as soon as Congress reconvenes in November. Statements by Sen. Downey, chairman of the Senate Civil Service Committee, and Rep. Robert Ramspeck, chairman of the House Civil Service Committee, give the brightest picture for raises since start of the war. Sen. Downey announced he would promote the following three-point plan: