Health and Human Services employees offered $25K buyout
Health and Human Services employees were offered voluntary buyouts on Friday to resign from their jobs, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Nearly 80,000 federal workers, primarily civilian employees of HHS -- including those from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration -- received an offer for a "voluntary separation incentive payment" of up to $25,000 with a deadline to respond by March 14.
The offer follows a directive from President Donald Trump's administration that drastically reduced the size of the federal workforce. According to a memo issued by the Office of Personnel Management last month, all federal agencies are set to begin preparations for large-scale layoffs and restructuring by March 13.
-ABC News' Mark Abdelmalek and Kelsey Walsh
