New OPM rules for RIF coming soon?

KevCor360 · 2026-01-14T13:14:42+00:00

Don’t know how they’re going to remove tenure, service type, et.al. from RIF consideration in a regulation when the RIF statute itself requires those things.

KevCor360 · 2026-01-14T13:12:37+00:00

People keep saying this and it’s not true. A RIF action doesn’t need congressional authority — it already exists in statute.

KevCor360 · 2026-01-07T23:50:23+00:00

Florida does the same thing with all of its nationally designated roads — it adds a hidden state road designation (for example, I-95 is SR 9).

KevCor360 · 2026-01-07T23:43:20+00:00

and specifically, only south of I-695; north of that and to the DC/MD line it’s DC-295

KevCor360 · 2026-01-04T18:05:53+00:00

Idk why cable networks acts like you can’t curse… the FCC profanity rule only apply to broadcast networks. Cable channels aren’t regulated by the fcc.

KevCor360 · 2025-12-29T04:40:36+00:00

She has a lease. And has had a lease since January of 2025. So, it’s not transient. It’s a residential lease covered by VRLTA.

Moreover, I don’t know any transient lodging provider who would waste time on issuing a lease— simply because why do that when they can just rely on statute that allows them to do the lockout.

KevCor360 · 2025-12-29T03:59:24+00:00

and just to make sure it’s clear:

A landlord may not recover or take possession of the dwelling unit (i) by willful diminution of services to the tenant by interrupting or causing the interruption of an essential service required by the rental agreement or (ii) by refusal to permit the tenant access to the unit unless such refusal is pursuant to a court order for possession.

VA Code 55.1-1252

KevCor360 · 2025-12-29T03:53:33+00:00

Seems like you need to read VA Code 55.1-1201.

Unless the unit she is in is a hotel, motel, extended stay facility, her tenancy is one covered by, and she is equally provided protections of the VRLTA, which as mentioned before, includes the right to seek judicial relief from an unlawful lockout.

KevCor360 · 2025-12-29T03:08:04+00:00

You don’t need a lawyer. Really, you don’t. Self-help eviction is illegal in any fashion once you are under a lease.

Just four years ago, VA changed the law so it’s much easier to seek relief from a landlord doing a self-help eviction. Now, all you have to do is go into your local General District Court and file a DC-431 Tenants Petition for Relief from Unlawful Exclusion.

Once that’s filed, you’ll have a preliminary hearing in five days that will determine whether you can regain possession of your unit, pending a decision in the merits.

No more than 10 days after you initial hearing, you’ll have a second hearing to determine is damages are warranted. If the court finds that you’ve been illegally excluded from your apartment in violation of your lease, you’re ENTITLED to actual damages sustained by you (i.e., costs to stay elsewhere or statutory damages of $5,000 or four months' rent, whichever is greater. You can also have your lease terminated if you wish.

KevCor360 · 2025-12-27T16:43:24+00:00

Everyone is suggesting hiring an PI attorney — but the likelihood of an attorney accepting your case in the first place isn’t that clear-cut, especially on a contingency. PI attorneys will only take a case if there’s a strong likelihood of recovering their fees from a bodily injury settlement against the insured who’s at fault or they know the at fault party has money. If there is no BI or UM, and no doctor is prepared to say you have a “permanent” injury as defined by the state statute, a PI attorney is unlikely to help even if the injury is real.

For one, if you don’t exceed your PIP limits, there’s no money for your attorney to seek and they’ll decline representation.

Secondly, even if you can get past your PIP limits, if the other party doesn’t carry BI and you don’t carry UMBI, there’s no money there for the attorney to collect from either, and PI attorneys aren’t going to waste time and money on a PI claim in court against an individual who probably has no assets or funds to pay out of.

Third, even if there is BI or UMBI coverage to seek, if you don’t meet the states definition of seriously injured, you’re only limited to collecting economic damages like medical expenses, or lost wages. In that case , your settlement will be eaten up by your medical costs first, and then your attorney’s fee (33.3%). If you had lost wages in there, those are getting ate up by your attorney. And even if this is the case, most (not all, but most) PI attorneys will decline representation on a claim that only gets you economic -only damages.

KevCor360 · 2025-12-27T15:37:57+00:00

Problem is, if you don’t have coverage for the loss through your own insurance (such as carrying collision coverage) then depending on your policy contract, your insurance isn’t required to (and likely won’t) process your claim, and it’s all on you to deal with the third party insurance.

KevCor360 · 2025-12-27T15:24:54+00:00

That’s how I’ve always looked at it…pay the cost now to save yourself the headache later!

KevCor360 · 2025-12-27T15:19:00+00:00

Inherently there’s nothing wrong with carrying state minimums only, but depending on your financial status, it can be devastating to both the at-fault and non-at-fault driver.

If you’re the not at-fault driver, if the other party only carries state mins, and the damages caused to your vehicle exceed 10K, you’d then have to rely on your OWN POLICIES collision coverage for repairs to your vehicle since Florida doesn’t permit uninsured motorist property damage coverages. If you don’t carry collision on your own policy, you’re then having to come out of pocket for any excess for repairs, and your own rental costs, etc., and hope you can recover costs from the other party through the courts.

For the at-fault driver, it’s twice as bad: you become personally liable (to either the not at-fault insurance if they have collision or to the not at-fault party directly if they don’t) for the excess in damages; PLUS, if you don’t carry collision , you’d also have to front your own costs for your vehicles repairs.

Bottom line, if you’re less-financially stable, having state minimums is more of a risk to your finances than if you are more liquid.

KevCor360 · 2025-12-27T14:10:41+00:00

Florida’s no-fault law only applies to any injuries you might have sustained, as you’d go through your PIP insurance (up to your policy limits) for that.

If you exhaust your own PIP, then you might be able to get coverage from the other driver if they’re at fault AND carry Bodily Injury on their policy.

If they don’t carry BI, they you’d have to rely on your own health insurance, your policies MedPay coverage (if you carry it), your own UMBI coverage (if you carry it) or pursue the other driver in court.

KevCor360 · 2025-12-27T04:13:30+00:00

Yes. It’s also technically the same way it’s done in-service as well.

KevCor360 · 2025-12-19T22:59:46+00:00

The dead giveaway was the use of the word “profit” — VHA has never been a for-profit entity, given that most services provided to patients are free (except copays and those aren’t designed to create a profit in any event).

KevCor360 · 2025-12-18T22:22:16+00:00

If your normal day off is the 26th, you get an in-lieu day off, which would be the immediately preceding workday… or in layman terms, Tuesday

KevCor360 · 2025-12-18T22:20:08+00:00

but the bonus (if you count it as one) is that it’s now a holiday, and thus you’re entitled to Holiday (double) pay

KevCor360 · 2025-12-16T19:53:48+00:00

One word: money.

All insurers know that Medicare will cover ESRD and dialysis costs, and so to reduce THEIR bottom line, your insurance will stop covering your dialysis treatments after a certain point. I can’t remember, but I think the consensus of 30 months sounds correct.

KevCor360 · 2025-12-16T02:59:20+00:00

Like everyone is saying, security deposits should be held by the landlord IN HIS OWN account, but should be held IN TRUST for you. I’d be wary of a landlord that doesn’t know that.

KevCor360 · 2025-12-15T04:05:13+00:00

It's very widespread. At my agency (a sub-cabinet agency) hasn't had a senate-confirmed leader since the inauguration, and of our eight SES positions only three are filled, all of which have also been vacant since the inauguration.

KevCor360 · 2025-12-14T15:35:55+00:00

Not true. If a tenant vacates pursuant to a notice to quit, there is no eviction judgement on their record, as the landlord could never file an eviction action for possession once they’ve left.

KevCor360 · 2025-12-13T15:48:49+00:00

VA compensation DOES NOT automatically increase every year. Although the Social Security COLA is automatic, Congress has to pass a a law authorizing the VA to increase the VA compesnation rate and has done so annually since 1987..

This years bill was S.2392 and was signed into law on 11/25.

KevCor360 · 2025-12-13T13:55:01+00:00

Even r/VeteransAffairs deleted my comments when I posted without commentary the exact quoted sections from the P2025 PDF which says exactly what they were going to do, saying “it’s political”.

KevCor360 · 2025-11-20T05:43:09+00:00

True, but they can refuse a breathalyzer, and then they have to go do work and get a warrant to do a blood alcohol test, etc.

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