General CMS Information
Provides healthcare to those primarily over 65 and those with disabilities, ALS and end stage renal disease
What is Medicare?
Voluntary contribution plan for United States civil service employees and retirees as well as for members of the uniformed services.
What is the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)?
A government statement that would show leave and other earnings?
What is a Leave and Earnings Statement (LES)?
You need to find information on labor practices with CMS.
What is the Master Labor Agreement?
It's what America runs on.
What is Dunkin Doughnuts?
Government insurance program for persons of all ages whose income and resources are insufficient to pay for health care
What is Medicaid?
A federal government spending arrangement, is one of a number of tax-advantaged financial accounts, resulting in payroll tax savings.
What is the Flexible Spending Account (FSA)?
A permanent record in your Official Personnel Folder that documents and reports all personnel actions
What is a SF 50?
A group found in CMS providing support, resources and enhancing career development, and contributing to personal development in the work environment.
What is the ERG? The Employee Resource Group.
Invented the 1st vaccine for polio
Who is Jonas Salk?
The name of the intranet for CMS.
What is CMS net?
Retirement system for employees within the United States civil service.
What is the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS)?
A CMS system that you can select training and documents your training?
What is the Learning Management System (LMS)
An icon that contains all the important files and programs you might need on your laptop.
What is the CMS Shortcuts?
The name of a carved pumpkin used on Halloween.
What is a Jack-O-Lantern?
Provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children. The program was designed to cover uninsured children in families with incomes that are modest but too high to qualify for Medicaid.
What is CHIP? Children's Health Insurance Program.
Managed competition through which employee health benefits are provided to civilian government employees and annuitants of the United States government.
What are the Federal Government Employee Health Benefits (FEHB)?
The CMS officer that provides oversight and accounting for security and information.
What is the ISSO? What is the Information Systems and Security Officer?
When you need to find a list of activities to complete for new employees.
What is the New Employee Handbook?
Largest Government agency
What is the DoD? (1.3 million)
The first 2 people to receive Medicare cards
Who is President Truman and wife Bessie Truman?
It allows eligible government account holders to borrow from their savings and then pay back the money they borrowed, along with interest, to their account.
What is a Thrift Saving Plan Account loan?
The CMS office that handles all recruiting training, and hiring of CMS employees
What is the OHC? The Office of Human Capital
Need to see your group's /office/center's organizational chart?
What is the CMS Intranet? Or What is the CMS Net under About CMS?
The constellation in the sky shaped liked a winged horse.
What is Pegasus?