On March 8, Health and Human Services (HHS) employees were offered voluntary buyouts to resign from their positions. According to an article from NBC News, the buyout was reported by an individual who received an email Friday night.
The article stated, “The agency’s approximately 80,000 employees received an unsigned email Friday night offering them a ‘voluntary separation incentive payment,’ with a deadline to respond set for Friday, March 14.”
A March 9 article from the AP said, “The mass email went out to a ‘broad population of HHS employees,’ landing in their inboxes days before agency heads are due to offer plans for shrinking their workforces. HHS is one of the government’s costliest federal agencies, with an annual budget of about $1.7 trillion that is mostly spent on health care coverage for millions of people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid.”
The Voluntary Separation Incentive Payment Authority lets agencies that are scaling down or restructuring to offer employees lump-sum payments of up to $25,000 as an motivation to willingly separate.
Janette Wider | Editor-in-Chief
Janette Wider is Editor-in-Chief for Healthcare Purchasing News.
