(JIM WATSON - AFP/GETTY IMAGES) President Obama wants a higher pay raise for military troops than for federal employees, a proposal that could spark another fight over pay parity for civilian workers and uniformed personnel.

Obama’s budget plan would increase federal civilian pay by 0.5 percent, a modest bump we first reported in January that would end a two-year cost-of-living pay freeze. Uniformed military personnel would receive a 1.7 percent increase in pay in 2013, the full increase allowed by law, according to the budget proposal.

The budget also calls for federal workers to increase the contribution of federal employees to their retirement program by 0.4 percent each year over three years. (Read more on that proposal here.)

President Obama unveiled his federal budget proposal for the 2013 fiscal year on Monday. Here is an agency-by-agency breakdown of the plan. This post will be updated as information becomes available.

Employee Earl Minor stacks copies of the fiscal 2013 budget at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington. (Andrew Harrer - Bloomberg News) President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget request was released Monday, and our reporters are already diving into the document on an agency-by-agency level. You can follow our coverage right here on the Federal Eye blog and on 44 blog as we make our way through the document.

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The Obama administration is proposing to increase the contribution of federal employees to their retirement program by 0.4 percent each year over three years.

In a telephone briefing with federal union leaders on the administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2013, officials from the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management said the 1.2 percent increase over three years would save the government about $27 billion over 10 years.

Union leaders described the briefing to the Washington Post. “We are not happy,” said one.

Last month, the Federal Eye reported that President Obama wants to end the current two-year freeze on federal worker basic pay rates by increasing wages by 0.5 percent beginning in January.

The Agriculture Department’s South Building houses the day-care center. (Ricky Carioti - THE WASHINGTON POST) About 95 children of federal employees and contractors will soon be out of a day-care center because of space and safety concerns at a basement facility located at the Agriculture Department.

Officials announced plans last month to close the USDA Child Development Center at 14th St. NW in May. The General Services Administration later pushed back the closing date to September after hearing from panicked parents.

“To close a day-care center in three to four months is ridiculous, because it takes a year or longer to get into any day-care center in the District — on a good day,” said one of the affected parents, who works as a contractor with USDA. “I’m on waiting lists right now that are two to three years. To give parents three to four months is absurd.”