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Metro WashingtonÛªs 300,000 white-collar feds would get a 5.45 percent October raise, the 100,000 retirees here would keep getting inflation adjustments every six months and military	retirees-tumed-bureaucrats</br></br>Metro WashingtonÛªs 300,000 white-collar feds would get a 5.45 percent October raise, the 100,000 retirees here would keep getting inflation adjustments every six months and military	retirees-tumed-bureaucrats would have their compensation limited under a shopping list okayed yesterday by the House Post Office-Civil Service Committee (PO-CS).</br></br>The plan from the Democrat-dominated committee differs from the Reagan administrationÛªs diet menu .aimed at slimming U.S. pay and retirement benefits. It runs counter to a budget package cleared earlier this month by the GOP-run Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.</br></br>President Reagan has signaled his intention to limit the October pay hike to 4.8 percent. And he wants to put federal-military retirees, who now get cost-of-living (COL) raises in March and September, on a one-raise-per-year cycle.</br></br>Both the Senate and House Budget committees sent reduced spending limits to the two ÛÏjurisdictionalÛ committees, PO-CS and Governmental Affairs. The budget groups endorsed the 4.8 percent raise and the COL cutback. Governmental Affairs went along with the proposed changes. But the House unit, headed by pro-union Chairman William Ford (D-Mich.), says the 5:45 percent pay proposal (left behind by Jimmy Carter) is fairer to feds. By refusing to take action on the proposal to limit retirees to one COL adjustment every 12 months, the committee would keep the March and September raises intact.