The Department of Health and Human Services is offering its employees up to $25,000 to voluntarily leave the federal workforce.
The announcement came in an email to HHS staff Friday evening. The email, which was reviewed by NOTUS, says that employees can apply for the buyout anytime next week. Authorization for the payments, known as Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments, came from the Office of Personnel Management.
The email states that the offer is made in keeping with President Donald Trump’s recent executive order that seeks to “reduce the unnecessary footprint of the government.” It also notes that the buyout offer is in addition to the early retirement offer made by the department to eligible employees earlier this week.